William Blake, Jacques Derrida and the secret heart of deconstruction : the dark back of time /
This book reads Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction through the lens of William Blake’s aphorism, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” Blake’s sentence finds a modern echo in Leonard Cohen’s most famous line, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” T...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2025.
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| Summary: | This book reads Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction through the lens of William Blake’s aphorism, “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” Blake’s sentence finds a modern echo in Leonard Cohen’s most famous line, “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” That light is Blake’s eternity. This book takes deconstruction out of the seminar room and into the wider world, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life and showing also that it has existed for as long as language itself, and that it forms the invisible heart of both art and religion. |
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| Physical Description: | 204 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [185}-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1036456315 9781036456313 |