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What is deconstruction?
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New York : St Martin's Pr., 1988
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9780856709616
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Norris provides a comprehensive documentation of Deconstruction theory and its root in modern literature, while Benjamin produces a thorough and well justified explanation. This is a vial guide to understanding Deconstruction in contemporary art and architecture and its relationship to modern critical methods.


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Andrew Benjamin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, Warwick. He has recently completed a term as visiting professor of architecture at Columbia University, New York, and his publications include Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde, The Plural Event and Object? Painting. He is Editor of the Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts.


Table of Contents

Deconstruction, Oost-Modernism and the Visual ArtsChristopher Norris
The Metaphysics of Presence
Plato, Rousseau, Saussure Framing the Text
Kant and Hegel Truth, Writing
Representation Double Sessions
Derrida on Mallarme and Adami Against Post-modernism
the Politics of Deconstruction Deconstruction and Art/the Art of DeconstructionAndrew Benjamin
Deconstruction Itself Deconstruction and the Architecture of Affirmation
Writing about Adami Interpreting/Painting and the Art of Deconstruction