Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell

by Colin Davis

Book Overview

This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"-Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek and Stanley Cavell-and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804763062
• ISBN13: 9780804763066
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"