The Rhetoric of Failure Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.11.1995
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
247
Maße (L/B/H)
22,7/15/1,5 cm
Gewicht
345 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7914-2712-5
Reading both philosophical and literary texts, this book shows that it is possible to move past the endless discussions of the impasse of postmodernity or the collapse of reason, and see that deconstruction leads not to nihilism but to the "triumph of the other" that has been violently excluded from traditional subject-centered philosophy.
In The Rhetoric of Failure, Ewa Ziarek offers a bold rethinking of deconstruction, modernism, and post-structural ethics. Bringing philosophical rigor and literary sensitivity into rare alignment, Ziarek stages an original confrontation between major thinkers--Cavell, Derrida, Levinas, and Benjamin--and modernist writers such as Kafka, Beckett, and Gombrowicz. The result is a powerful challenge to the familiar view of deconstruction as a philosophy of impossibility, nihilism, or communicative collapse. Against interpretations that read modernist skepticism as the negation of meaning or ethical responsibility, Ziarek argues that the "failure" of subject-centered rationality marks something far more affirmative: the refusal to exclude or annihilate the other. Failure, in this sense, becomes a site of ethical significance, aesthetic invention, and renewed community rather than despair.
Through close, lucid readings that move fluidly between philosophy and literature, The Rhetoric of Failure demonstrates that deconstruction leads neither to linguistic solipsism nor to moral paralysis. Instead, it opens the possibility of writing--and thinking--otherwise. A significant and timely contribution to debates in literary theory, modernism, and post-structural ethics, this book will be essential reading for scholars of philosophy, literature, and critical theory.
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