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Critical excess : overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Colin, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The ancient quarrel : philosophy and literature
  • Derrida, hermeneutics and deconstruction
  • Deleuze : against interpretation
  • Levinas and the resistance to reading
  • Žižek's idiotic enjoyment
  • Cavell and the claim of reading
  • Conclusion : in praise of overreading.