De La Salle University Publishing House (DLSUPH)
Deconstruction After All Reflections and Conversations
edited by David Jonathan Y. Bayot
Published and distributed by
De La Salle University (DLSU) Publishing House, 2015
ISBN 978-971-555-628-6
This collection of interviews and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside his uncompromising critiques emerge passages of committed close and careful reading of Jacques Derrida’s texts, as he cites and reiterates Derrida’s philosophical contexts in the works of Immanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard, and Georges Canguilhem, as well as in the fields of epistemology and philosophy of science. The book also offers a coda of “essays” on Frank Kermode, Terry Eagleton, and Terence Hawkes. This collection, prefaced with Norris’s own academic memoir, not only provides an accessible and provocative introduction to Norris’s critical thought, but also highlights the wide range of his interests and philosophical engagements.
CHRISTOPHER NORRIS is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University in Wales and the author of many books about literary theory, philosophy of language, epistemology, and music, with a particular interest in deconstruction as a point of convergence between them. His most recent book, The Cardinal’s Dog and Other Poems (second edition), is co-published by the De La Salle University Publishing House.
DAVID JONATHAN Y. BAYOT is Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. He is the general editor of the Critics in Conversation series published by the DLSU Publishing House and also of the Critical Voices series published by Sussex Academic Press.