Dead Theory : Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory

"What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been haunted by death and how it might endure for the future."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover -- Half Title -- Also available from Bloomsbury -- Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Notes from Underground -- Applied theory -- Double death -- Alone together -- Double feeling -- Dead theory -- 1 The Heirs to Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction -- 2 The Humanists Strike Back -- 3 The Afterlife of Critics -- Afterlives and symbolic networks -- Writing and virtuality -- Blanchot: Virtual spaces of literature -- Deleuze/. Guattari: The philosophy of "lower-.level processing"--Sub-.syllabic deconstructive "dots 4 Thanatographies of the Future -- 5 Ghosts in the Politics of Friendship -- 6 Death, Survival, and Translation -- Parables of the poem -- Saving the poem -- Mourning the poem -- Protecting the "poem"--7 Theory's Autoimmunity -- 8 Eclipse of the Gaze -- 9 Deleuze, Kerouac, Fascism, and Death -- 10 Theory's Ruins -- Absent ruins and broken vases -- Ironic enchantments -- 11 Undying Theory -- Theory, death, ethics -- Thinking things -- Place, technology, and theoretical debt -- Notes on Contributors -- Index "What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been haunted by death and how it might endure for the future."--Page 4 of cover 1. Theory, theorists, death -- 2. Derrida, death, theory -- 3. Politics, death, theory