Title
Thinking Difference : Critics in Conversation / Julian Wolfreys.
ISBN
9780823293360
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (199 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823293360 doi
Summary
"Difference" has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy. In projects ranging from deconstructive readings of canonical texts to a radical rethinking of the sacred, "difference" has been the node around which theorists have explored questions of conflict, power, identity, meaning, and knowledge itself in postmodern culture. At this point, what difference does "difference" make? In this imaginatively conceived book, Julian Wolfreys talks to thirteen leading scholars about the place of "difference" in their own work, in their own fields, and in their teaching. How has intellectual engagement with difference-its celebration of otherness and opposition, whether in a work of art or in world politics-shaped teaching, reading, and writing in today's colleges and universities? And at a time when identity politics and cultural critique have been institutionalized by the academy, has "difference" been domesticated? Personal and revealing, these conversations come together as a kind of collective self-portrait of the humanities at one of its important junctures. Thinking Difference offers provocative reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking. Here are original conversations on the career of a key concept with: Nicholas Royle, Derek Attridge, Peggy Kamuf, Avital Ronell, Arkady Plotnitsky, John P. Leavey, Jr., Mary Ann Caws, Jonathan Culler, Gregory L. Ulmer, J. Hillis Miller, John D. Caputo, Kevin Hart, and Werner Hamacher
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823223084
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1 The Beginning Is Haunted: Teaching and the Uncanny
2 Encountering the Other in the Classroom
3 Symptoms of Response
4 Confessions of an Anacoluthon: On Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, and Politics
5 Difference beyond Difference
6 Q&A: Whims, Whim-Whams, Whimsies, and the "Responsiveble" Interview
7 Thinking about This ...
8 Resisting Resistance
9 Going to University with Socrates
10 In Praise of Devilish Hermeneutics
11 A-mail: Differential Imaging
12 The Degree Zero of Criticism
13 To Leave the Word to Someone Else
Contributors
Notes
Works Cited
Index
