Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard

by Tilottama Rajan

Book Overview

This book aims to disentangle two terms that were conflated in the initial Anglo-American appropriation of French theory: deconstruction and poststructuralism. Focusing on Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard (but also considering Levinas, Blanchot, de Man, and others), it deals with the turn from a deconstruction inflected by phenomenology to a poststructuralism formed by its rejection of models based on consciousness in favor of ones based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745013
• ISBN13: 9780804745017
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"