Bibliograph

Privileging Difference, Antony Easthope, edited by Catherine Belsey

Type

Label

Privileging Difference, Antony Easthope, edited by Catherine Belsey

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Privileging Difference

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

155850146

Responsibility statement

edited by Catherine Belsey

Series statement

Springer

Sub title

Antony Easthope

Summary

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way. Celebrating variety for its own sake, Antony Easthope argues, cultural criticism too readily ignores the role of the text itself in addressing the desire of the reader. With characteristic directness, he takes to task the foremost theorists of the current generation one by one, including Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, Dona Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler. In a final tour de force, he contrasts what he calls the two Jakes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, to bring out the way their respective theories need each other. The book is vintage Easthope: wide-ranging, fearless, witty and a radical challenge to complacency wherever it is to be found.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Duchamp -- Heath -- From Marxism to Difference -- Said -- Bhabha -- Rose -- Haraway -- Braidotti -- Butler -- Dollimore -- Eagleton -- Grossberg -- Zizek -- The Two Jakes -- Conclusion

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