What is Deconstruction? ("What Is...?" Series)

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. ** theory,culture,design Discusses The Application Of Deconstructionist Theories And Criticism To The Visual Arts, And Considers Its Relation To Western Metaphysics. Deconstruction, Post-modernism And The Visual Arts / Christopher Norris -- The Metaphysics Of Presence: Plato, Rousseau, Saussure -- Framing The Text: Kant And Hegel -- Truth, Writing, Representation -- Double Sessions: Derrida On Mallarmé And Adami -- Against Post-modernism: The Politics Of Deconstruction -- Deconstruction And Art / The Art Of Deconstruction / Andrew Benjamin -- Deconstruction Itself -- Deconstruction And The Architecture Of Affirmation -- Writing About Adami -- Interpreting / Painting And The Art Of Deconstruction. Christopher Norris & Andrew Benjamin. Includes Bibliographical References. Deconstruction, Post-modernism and the Visual Arts by Christopher Norris The Metaphysics of Presence: Plato, Rousseau, Saussure 7 Framing the Text: Kant and Hegel 10 Truth, Writing, Representation 16 Double Sessions: Derrida on Mallarme and Adami 20 Against Post-modernism: the Politics of Deconstruction 25 Deconstruction and Art / The Art of Deconstruction by Andrew Benjamin Deconstruction Itself 33 Deconstruction and the Architecture of Affirmation 36 Writing about Adami 44 Interpreting / Painting and the Art of Deconstruction 48