The Invention of Deconstruction

Part I. Invention, Advent, Event

1. After the Event: Looking Back on Deconstruction
Mark Currie

2. The Discovery of America: The Reception of Derrida in the United States
Mark Currie

Part II. The Domestication of Derrida

3. Domestication Narratives
Mark Currie

4. The Question of History in Derrida and de Man
Mark Currie

Part III. Deconstruction and Critical Authority

5. Derrida and the Authority of Linguistics
Mark Currie

6. The Ventriloquism of Paul de Man
Mark Currie

Part IV. Philosophy, Literature and Responsibility

7. Metaphor and the Invention of Truth
Mark Currie

8. Performativity and Obligation
Mark Currie

9. Conclusion: Invention and Responsibility
Mark Currie

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, European Literature, Linguistics, general, Cultural Theory