Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 119 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesFrenchPhilosophyAnalytic PhilosophyPhilosophy Of LanguageRhetoricFigurative LanguageLiteral InterpretationDeconstructionDeconstruction Of RealityLanguage DeconstructionMetaphorical InterpretationRabbinic AuthorityRabbinic ExegesisRabbinic HermeneuticsRabbinic Philosophy
Introduction 1. Indeterminacy of French interpretation: Derrida and Davidson 2. The extension of deconstruction 3. Truth conditions, rhetoric, and logical form: Davidson and deconstruction 4. Davidson, Derrida, and Knapp and Michaels on intentions in interpretation 5. Metaphor according to Davidson and de Man 6. True figures: metaphor and the Sorites 7. A Rabbinic philosophy of language 8. Deconstruction, Cleanth Brooks, and self-reference 9. A deconstructive Wittgenstein: on Henry Staten's Wittgenstein and Derrida 10. Wittgenstein as conservative deconstructor 11. Deconstructed distinctions are OK 12. Derrida's difference and Plate's different Notes Index.