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Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn demonstrates the continuing importance of deconstruction and other related movements for current literary theory, insisting on the seriousness of the deconstructive enterprise, its philosophical background, and its possible usefulness for negotiating the political terrain of the postmodern university.
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Copyright 1995 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baker, Peter, 1995 Deconstruction and the ethical turn / Peter Baker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-8130-1365-8 1. Deconstruction. I. Title. PN98.D43B35 1995 95-5313 801.95 dc20 CIP
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To Debbie
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
1. The Ethical Subject of Discourse
11
2. Lacan as a Reader of Merleau-Ponty
34
3. Derrida and the Theory of Difference
48
4. Levinas and the Ethics of Exteriority
67
5. The Ethical Feminism of Julia Kristeva
83
6. Deconstruction's "Impossible" Ethics
97
7. Derrida's "Negative" Autobiography
117
Notes
131
Works Cited
151
Index
163
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Preface
The title of this study, Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn, is intended to rhyme with that movement in twentieth-century philosophy and literary theory called "the linguistic turn." As I discuss more fully in the introduction, this linguistic turn has widely been seen as establishing an attention to the underlying structure of language in any discourse of the human sciences. What I propose in this study is that the larger or more far-reaching effect of this turn is not to displace all decisions and actions into the linguistic field, but rather to see "writing" in the expanded sense given by Jacques Derrida in Of Grammatology, for example, as allowing an increased descriptive efficacy and transformative power to analyses of a wide array of human actions and fields of knowledge. This can already be seen in the effects of the movement known as deconstruction in fields as diverse as composition theory, architecture, and legal studies. My goal here is not to explore all the ramifications of the radical insights offered by deconstructive approaches into these various fields, or even to explore the literary critical dimensions of deconstruction. Rather, the approach I take here is to examine the significant texts and some of the related work undertaken by mainly French theorists and their American commentators. Deconstruction has so thoroughly entered the academic fields and the general or popular understanding that use of the term itself, like an earlier term, existentialism, is not limited to university professors and students but can be found in newspaper op-ed pages and even who knows?insults shouted by cab drivers. At such a point, a study such as this one may have the value of insisting on the seriousness of the deconstructive enterprise, its philosophical background, and its possible usefulness for negotiating the political terrain of the postmodern university, not to say the world.
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In the introduction, I present a fuller version of the above story, presenting the crucial works by Derrida and Michel Foucault from the late sixties as a key turning point from structuralism/poststructuralism to an enlarged and very powerful critique of existing institutions of knowledge and human endeavor. In the first chapter, I attend to a form that the resistance to deconstruction takesaccusing Derrida of denying reference and of philosophical nihilism in a representative recent text by Robert Scholes. I then attempt a limited explanation of the reasons for my focus on the work of Derrida rather than on the work of Foucault. I finally examine the work of Christopher Norris as an example of a critic who wants to insist on the continuing real-world efficacy of the deconstructive project. By examining critically some of Norris's affiliative scenarios, I indicate some of the limits of such an appropriative endeavor. In a sense, then, my own goal here is not to appropriate but to present an evaluation. Part of this presentational strategy consists in a roughly chronological ordering to the following chapters. The second chapter examines a key juncture from the early sixties between the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Lacan. I see Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as a strong continuing influence on figures such as Lacan and Derrida, and Lacan's shift of Merleau-Ponty's insights into the intersubjective realm of affective relations and personal identity as a means of maintaining some of phenomenology's ethical force. The third chapter examines a similar juncture in the philosophy of difference by examining the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, the radicalizing moves of Gilles Deleuze, and the deconstructive breach of Derrida in relation to these two thinkers. The fourth chapter insists on the link between the deconstructive project of Derrida and the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. I see Levinas's strong formulation of ethical
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