After Derrida : Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century Hardback

Edited by Jean-Michel (University of Pennsylvania) Rabate

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This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004.

Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories.

Today, one witnesses a general return to his way of reading literature, the rationale of which is detailed and explained in the essays.

The authors, both well-known and younger specialists, give many precise examples of how Derrida, who always remained at the cusp between literature and philosophy, posed fundamental questions and thus changed the field of literary criticism, especially with regard to poetry.

The contributors also highlight the way Derrida made spectacular interventions in feminism, psychoanalytic studies, animal studies, digital humanities and post-colonial studies.