Deconstruction and Critical Theory

Peter V. Zima is Director, Institute of General and Comparative Literature at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and author of 'The Philosophy of Modern Literary Theory'. Rainer Emig. the translator, is Professor of Literature at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

"Deconstruction and Critical Theory marks a new stage in the reception history of Dernda's work and in the wider philosophical debate around deconstruction. Zima's study makes a strikingly original contribution to our better understanding of deconstruction and its various philosophic sources." Christopher Norris, University of Wales at Cardiff

• Preface 1. Aesthetic Theory, Dialectic and Deconstruction 2. Derrida, Deconstruction, Philosophy & Literary Theory 3. Paul de Mann: Rhetoric and Aporia 4. J. Hillis Miller or Criticism as Ethics 5. Geoffrey Hartman: Romantic and Nietzschean. 6. Harold Bloom: influence and misreading 7. Critique of Deconstruction Bibliography