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Deconstruction is/in America
Deconstruction is/in America
A New Sense of the Political
Edited by Anselm Haverkamp
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Copyright © 1995 by New York University
All rights reserved.
“Burning Acts: Injurious Speech” (Chapter 10) copyright © 1995 by Judith
Butler.
“At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America” (Chapter 15) copyright © 1995 by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
“Burning Acts: Injurious Speech” (Chapter 10) also appears in Performance and Performativity, Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, eds. (Routledge, 1994).
“The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies” (Chapter 4), by J.
Hillis Miller, draws upon parts of an earlier essay, “Is Deconstruction an
Aestheticism?”, which was published in Nineteenth-Century Prose, vol. 20, no.2 (fall 1993), pp. 23–41. Permission to reprint is gratefully acknowledged.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deconstruction is/in America : a new sense of the political / edited
by Anselm Haverkamp.
p. cm.
Chiefly based on papers presented at a conference in the fall of
1993.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8147-3518-5 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8147-3519-3 pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Criticism—Congresses. 2. Deconstruction—Congresses.
I. Haverkamp, Anselm. II. Title: Deconstruction in America.
III. Title: Deconstruction is America.
PN98.D43D42 1995
801′.95—dc20 94-38318
CIP
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their
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Contents
Deconstruction is/as Neopragmatism? Preliminary Remarks on Deconstruction in America
Anselm Haverkamp
The Time is Out of Joint Jacques Derrida
1. Deconstruction and the Lyric Jonathan Culler
2. Reading Epitaphs Cynthia Chase
3. Upping the Ante: Deconstruction as Parodic Practice Samuel Weber
4. The Disputed Ground: Deconstruction and Literary Studies J. Hillis Miller
5. Une drôle de classe de philo Michel Beaujour
6. Going Public: The University in Deconstruction Peggy Kamuf
III. The Politics of Singularity
7. Possibilizations, in the Singular Rodolphe Gasché
8. Writing Resistances Elisabeth Weber
9. Presentness and the “Being-Only-Once” of Architecture Peter Eisenman
IV. The Performance of Difference
10. Burning Acts: Injurious Speech Judith Butler
11. Republic, Rhetoric, and Sexual Difference Barbara Vinken
12. The Test Drive Avital Ronell
V. A New Sense of the Political
13. Ghost Writing Derek Attridge
14. The Form of Politics Perry Meisel
15. At the Planchette of Deconstruction is/in America Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
16. Jaded in America David Wills