Book of Addresses
- Editore:
Stanford University Press
- Collana:
- Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- EAN:
9780804750585
- ISBN:
0804750580
- Pagine:
- 382
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Book of Addresses
This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy.