ABSTRACT
Miller is so often so generous in performing close readings of authors and theorists and that is true of the sustained and careful attention to the work of Derrida. In the Preface to Deconstruction and Criticism, Geoffrey Hartman stresses the importance of criticism and literature and says that language is a key to literature. History, new historicism and Marxism are topics that Salusinszky asks Miller to consider. Kant’s use of the term both ways may imply remembering Hume’s work or invoke “Hume’s admonition or warning about the use of the causal concept in traditional metaphysics.” Deconstruction is a more recent example of questioning speculative philosophy and metaphysics. Nietzsche is relating truth, lies and morals (ethics). These matters also concern de Man and Miller in this interview and in his work.
