This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
| ISBN: | 9780804750592 |
| Publication date: | 20th December 2004 |
| Author: | Peggy Kamuf |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Genres: |
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |