In light of work by Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, this paper weaves a poetic response to the Western ethnocentric mode thought as that which cuts once forever line dividing nature from culture. That elevates Man over all other creatures, indeed living things, does so means phallic imaginary deeply tied Judaeo-Christian ontotheology – shame, nudity original sin. Through figur...

Zusammenfassung Der Aufsatz überprüft die These, daß Moderne kein Zeitalter der Rhetorik, sondern ein Rhetorizität sei, an drei einschlägigen Texten von Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man und Roland Barthes. Dabei erweist sich genannte These als einseitig, da sie zwar auf restringierten elocutio-Rhetoriken Derridas Mans (sowie Ricœurs, wie Exkurs seiner Benveniste-Rezeption andeutet) zutreffen mag, n...

Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers! concludes with an unexpected moment of extreme violence as two young lovers, Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, are murdered by Marie's husband in a mulberry orchard. Cather's novel is almost wholly devoted to the psychological interior of the protagonist, Alexandra Bergson, thereby rendering this violent interruption more dynamic as it essentially undercuts ...

The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflec...

How to explain the cachet of deconstruction, the way it has infiltrated public discourse? At the crudest level of its appeal, the word announces the writer's knowingness: I'm hip to what's hip. I know what's happening in the world of big ideas. A Los Angeles-based screenwriter named Mark Horowitz, trying to explain the current French enthusiasm for movies starring Mickey Rourke, places the deco...