A World of Difference

by Barbara Johnson and Professor Barbara Johnson

Book Overview

Is a willingness to carry an inquiry to the point of undecidability necessarily at odds with political engagement? In A World of Difference Barbara Johnson extends and rethinks the theoretical perspectives on literature opened up by her earlier book, The Critical Difference. Through subtle and probing analyses of texts by Wordsworth, Poe, Baudelaie, Mallarm?, Thoreau, Mary Shelley, Zora Neale HUrston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801837456
• ISBN13: 9780801837456
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

differences building the world

The fact that we are living in a world of differences is, basically, well-known. But who establish this differences? I think that the only authority is the one who ask the question, and "makes the difference". Our identity is a construction of who we think we are and of our image in the others eyes. The author(ity) of this book points this in a clear way. Derrida watch his disciple from the background of his writings, and, once more, naming the difference means: making the difference. This book can be very useful for the people living in Eastern Europe who are trying to find their "diferrence" in a large area of european identities. In fact, we are all members of certain minority, as individuals (for example, the academic minority who read Barbara Johnson in Romania)- before making part of a majority. The book is a perfect tool to review our traditions, customs, the past and the history who made us what we are now.

differences building the world

The fact that we are living in a world of differences is ,basically,well-known.But who establish this differences?I think that the only authority is the one who ask the question,and"makes the difference".Our identity is a construction of who we think we are and of our image in the others eyes.The author(ity) of this book points this in a clear way.Derrida watch his disciple from the background of his writings,and ,once more, naming the difference means:making the difference.This book can be verry useful for the people living in Eastern Europe who are trying to find their "diferrence"in a large area of european identities.in fact,we are all members of certain minority,as individuals(for example,the academic minority who read Barbara Johnson in Romania )-before making part of a majority.The book is a perfect tool to review our traditions,customs,the past and the history who made us what we are now.