{"product_id":"critical-excess-colin-davis-9780804763066","title":"Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell","description":"The \"ancient quarrel\" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. \u003ci\u003eCritical Excess\u003c\/i\u003e examines in detail the work of five thinkers who have had a huge, ongoing impact on the study of literature and film: Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek, and Stanley Cavell. Their approaches are very different from one another, but they each make unexpected interpretive leaps that render their readings exhilarating and unnerving. But do they go too far? Does a scribbled note left behind by Nietzsche really tell us about the nature of textuality? Can Hitchcock truly tell you \"everything you always wanted to know about Lacan\"? Does the blanket hung up in a motel room invoke the Kantian divide between the knowable phenomenal world and the unknowable things in themselves? Contextualizing the work of the five thinkers in the intellectual debates to which they contribute, this book analyzes the stakes and advantages of \"overreading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804763062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804763066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Colin Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419112554751,"sku":"9780804763066","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd95c032-b2ca-42ae-938f-d58714b45245.jpg?v=1761509517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-excess-colin-davis-9780804763066","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}