ABSTRACT

Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation and evaluation of major figures from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty to Focault and Derrida with detailed acconts of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Blanchot and Kristeva.

chapter |5 pages

Introductory Remarks

part I|1 pages

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE TEXTURE OF THEORY

chapter 1|13 pages

From Hermeneutics to Deconstruction

chapter 2|9 pages

Semiotics and Hermeneutics

chapter 3|7 pages

Hermeneutics and Interrogation

chapter 4|9 pages

Interrogation and Deconstruction

part II|1 pages

TOWARD A THEORY OF TEXTUALITY

chapter 5|9 pages

Enframing the Work of Art

chapter 6|12 pages

Writing at the Edge of Metaphysics

chapter 7|10 pages

Textuality and Literary Theory

chapter 8|7 pages

The Language of Textuality

part III|1 pages

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TEXTUALITIES

part IV|1 pages

VISIBLE/SCRIPTIVE TEXTUALITIES

part V|1 pages

THE INSTITUTION(S) OF PHILOSOPHY AS TEXTUALITIES

chapter 18|9 pages

On the University: Nietzsche/Schopenhauer

chapter 20|11 pages

On the Time of the Line: Derrida/Heidegger

chapter 22|10 pages

Philosophy Has Its Reasons...