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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press, ©2010. 2010.Description: 217pISBN:
  • 9780804763073
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801.95 DAV
Summary: The 'ancient quarrel' between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek, and Stanley Cavell.
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The 'ancient quarrel' between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical Excess examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek, and Stanley Cavell.

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