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Deconstruction: An American Institution,Used
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The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory JonesKatz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for deadeven as its principles and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities.Deconstruction begins well before Jacques Derridas initial American presentation of his deconstructive work in a famed lecture at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and continues through several decades of theoretic growth and tumult. While much of the subsequent story remains focused, inevitably, on Yale University and the personalities and curriculum that came to be lumped under the Yale school umbrella, Deconstruction makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory, and gender studies also were to the lifeblood of this mode of thought. Ultimately, JonesKatz shows that deconstruction in the United Statesso often caricatured as a French infectionwas truly an American phenomenon, rooted in our preexisting political and intellectual tensions, that eventually came to influence unexpected corners of scholarship, politics, and culture.
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