Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory

Abstract

Utopian deconstruction - Ernst Bloch, Paul de Man and the politics of music reading Donald Davidson - truth and interpretation Pope among the Formalists - sexual politics and The Rape of the Lock post-structuralist Shakespeare - text and ideology law, deconstruction and the resistance to theory De Man unfair to Kierkegaard? - an allegory of (non)-reading deconstruction against itself - Derrida and Nietzsche the politics of style and the fate of reading - on Geoffrey Hartman Derrida on reflection what's in a name? - Derrida's Signsponge textual theory at the bar of reason whose game is it anyway? - on the politics of postmodernism.