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Human rights law and the marginalized other by Simmons, William Paul, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Working with the marginalized other to deconstruct and reinvigorate human rights law.…”
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Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts : the Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions by Veltri, Giuseppe

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION: (DE)CANONIZATION AND DECONSTRUCTION -- Torah as the Unique Gift: The Traditional Pattern and the Tripartite Canon -- Canon as Censorship -- Deconstruction and Decanonization: A Paradigmatic Model -- The Present Study: Several Concrete Examples of Decanonization -- 1. …”
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Introduction to Critical Legal Theory. by Ward, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism and Deconstruction; The politics of the absurd; The turn to deconstruction; Pragmatism and postmodernism; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Jacques Derrida : a biography by Powell, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Algeria -- Paris and the ENS -- After ENS -- The first book -- Against structuralism -- Structures in French thought -- 1967 -- Avant-garde philosophy -- America: Derrida as literary theory -- Glas -- GREPH -- Yale -- The post card -- Nietzsche and Heidegger -- The 1980s -- 1987-90, deconstruction and National Socialism -- Autobiographical years, 1990-91 -- The future of democracy and the very worst moment of capitalism -- Derrida's world: confronting Marx -- The Politics of friendship -- Derrida's religion -- Thoughtful welcoming of the other, Death -- 2000 onwards.…”
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Nietzsche and the rhetoric of nihilism : essays on interpretation, language and politics

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- NOTE ON ANNOTATION -- INTRODUCTION -- Tracking Nihilism: Heidegger to Nietzsche to Derrida -- Nihilism: Reactive and Active -- Nihilism and Autobiography -- Nietzsche and Biblical Nihilism -- Language to the Limit -- The Deconstruction of the Tradition: Nietzsche and the Greeks -- The Nietzschean Interpretation ... of Freud as Thought on the Fragmentary, as Fragmented Thought -- Minoritarian Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Nihilism -- Passing-a-Way-of-the-Child -- Eurotaoism…”
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Practising Theory and Reading Literature : an Introduction. by Selden, Raman

Table of Contents: “…Leavis); 2 New Criticism; 3 'Rhetoric of Fiction'; Chapter 2 Russian Formalism; 4 'Baring the Device'; 5 'Making Strange' (Defamiliarisation); Chapter 3 Structuralism; 6 Naturalisation; 7 Binary Oppositions; 8 Narrative Theory; 9 Metaphor and Metonymy; Chapter 4 Poststructuralism; 10 The Semiotics of the Sign and the Subject; 11 Psychoanalytic Criticism; 12 Deconstruction; 13 New Historicism; Chapter 5 Reader-response Criticism.…”
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Derrida : Ethics Under Erasure. by Anderson, Nicole

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethics Under Erasure; Redescribing Derrida: The Problems of 'Indeterminacy' and 'Freeplay'; The Irreducible Plurality of Ethics; Singular Trajectories; Chapter 1: The 'Ethics of Deconstruction'?; Ethical-Political Turns: Setting the Scene; Conversing with Critchley; Derrida's Reading of Levinas; Dancing with Derrida; Chapter 2: Ethical (Im)possibilities; The Subject as Play; Ethical Possibilities; (Im)possibility; The (Im)possibility of Justice; Nietzsche?…”
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No more rules : graphic design and postmodernism by Poynor, Rick

Table of Contents: “…Origins -- Deconstruction -- Appropriation -- Techna -- Authorship -- Opposition.…”
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Later Derrida : reading the recent work by Rapaport, Herman, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Deconstruction's other -- Monolinguism and literature -- Archive trauma -- Subjectilities.…”
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Understanding others : peoples, animals, pasts by LaCapra, Dominick, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…History, deconstruction, and working through the past -- Humans, other animals, and the humanities -- Trauma, history, memory, identity : what remains? …”
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Complaint : grievance among friends by Ronell, Avital

Table of Contents: “…The History of a Complaint -- The Trouble with Deconstruction -- A Pass of Friendship -- Hannah Arendt Swallows the Lessing Prize -- The Right Not to Complain: On Johnson's Reparative Process.…”
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking : Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense. by Gratton, Peter

Table of Contents: “…s Other Resource: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Faith ""; ""Chapter 4: Deconstruction and Globalization: The World According to Jean-Luc Nancy ""…”
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NATO's security discourse after the Cold War : representing the West by Behnke, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From space to spatialization -- Identity, security, and the inescapability of the political -- Reading writing NATO -- Mapping the post-Cold War order: from the London declaration to the strategic concept -- The "home-coming": NATO and the Central and Eastern European states -- From pangolin to partner: the re-construction of Russia -- Arc of tension and crisis: the South and the Mediterranean -- "Out of area or out of business": Bosnia and the deconstruction of NATO -- NATO unlimited : the Washington summit 1999 -- Deconstructing the West: NATO in the age of terrorism -- Conclusion.…”
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Encountering the Nigerian state

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Excess and Abjection in the Study of the African State; 1 Deconstructing "Oluwole": Political Economy at the Margins of the State; 2 The Spatial Economy of Abjection: The Evacuation of Maroko Slum in Nigeria; 3 "Rotten English": Excremental Politics and Literary Witnessing; 4 The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Mobilization in Nigeria; 5 Vocalizing Rage: Deconstructing the Language of Antistate Forces; 6 The Subaltern Encounters the State: OPC-State Relations 1999-2003.…”
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Unruly practices : power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory by Fraser, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…; Part 2 On the Political and the Symbolic; Chapter 4 The French Derrideans: Politicizing Deconstruction or Deconstructing the Political?; Chapter 5 Solidarity or Singularity? …”
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Styles of piety : practicing philosophy after the death of God

Table of Contents: “…The persistent problem of value -- Philosophy and its fictions -- Deconstruction and religion.…”
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The culture of our thinking in relation to spirituality by Hogan, Michael, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Deconstructing, grappling, and moving in the field of others -- Free movement -- Swimming in the sea.…”
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The geopolitics of memory : a journey to Bosnia by Riding, James

Table of Contents: “…-- An Appropriate Gesture -- A Postcard from Bosnia -- A Travelogue on the Balkans -- The Case of Dayton Bosnia -- Deconstructing Territorial Ethno-Politics -- Remembering Trauma in Dayton Bosnia -- European Spatial Imaginaries and Balkanism -- An Attempt: Day One -- An Attempt: Day Two -- An Attempt: Day Three -- A Motive for this Project -- War and the Spectacle -- The Ground of the Image -- A Non-Ontopological Account -- Deconstructing Dayton -- A Final Journey -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Community boundaries and border crossings : critical essays on ethnic women writers

Table of Contents: “…I. Deconstructing boundaries -- II. Intra-spaces and liminality -- III. …”
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Demenageries : thinking (of) animals after Derrida

Table of Contents: “…Deconstruction and Petting: Untamed Animots in Derrida and Kafka.…”
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Implications of Immanence : Toward a New Concept of Life. by Lawlor, Leonard

Table of Contents: “…For the Creation Waits with Eager Longing for the Revelationâ€?â€?: From the Deconstruction of Metaphysics to the Deconstruction of Christianity in Derrida -- Eschatology and Positivism: The Critique of Phenomenology in Derrida and Foucault…”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice. by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 12. …”
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Derrida and Lacan : another writing by Lewis, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Lacan: the name-of-the-father and the phallus; 2. Deconstructing Lacan; 3. The real and the development of the imaginary; 4. …”
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The new Heidegger by Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Politically Adrift: The Affair with National Socialism; Concluding Remarks; Appendix 1 A Brief, Philosophical Biography; Appendix 2 Existential Philosophy and Psychotherapy; Appendix 3 Heidegger and the Greeks; Appendix 4 Hermeneutics after Heidegger: The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer; Appendix 5 Philosophy and Architecture; Appendix 6 Derrida and Deconstruction; Appendix 7 Human vs Artificial Intelligence.…”
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A leftist ontology : beyond relativism and identity politics

Table of Contents: “…/ Benjamin Robinson -- Deconstruction and experience: the politics of the undeconstructable / Roland Végső -- Politics and the fiction of the political / Sorin Radu-Cucu -- The last God: María Zambrano's life without texture / Alberto Moreiras -- Signification and substance: toward a leftist ontology of the present / Christopher Breu -- A politics of melancholia / Klaus Mladek and George Edmondson -- Afterword: thinking, being, acting; or, on the usese and disadvantages of ontology for politics / Bruno Bosteels.…”
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Contemporary Mise en Scène : Staging Theatre Today. by Pavis, Patrice

Table of Contents: “…The undecidability of meaningCrisis of representation and chorality; In praise of the void and of slowness; The degraded ritual of repetition; To exit representation; Deconstructing representation; Conclusions: 'To have done with the judgement of god' (Artaud) and with deconstruction?…”
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Literary criticisms of law by Binder, Guyora

Table of Contents: “…-- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE Deconstructive Criticism of Law -- Introduction -- 5.1 Derridean Deconstruction -- 5.2 Deconstruction as Epistemological Criticism -- 5.3 Deconstruction as Ethical Criticism -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX Cultural Criticism of Law -- Introduction -- 6.1 Theoretical Sources for Cultural Criticism of Law -- 6.2 Cultural Readings of Disputes -- 6.3 Cultural Readings of Capitalism -- Conclusion -- INDEX.…”
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Awareness bound and unbound : Buddhist essays by Loy, David, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Myth broken and unbroken -- Awareness bound and unbound: on the nature of attention -- Language against its own mystifications: deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen -- Dead words, living words, and healing words: the disseminations of Dogen and Eckhart -- Zhuangzi and Nagarjuna on the truth of no truth -- Cyberbabel -- Dying to the self that never was -- The dharma of Emanuel Swedenborg -- The karma of women -- The West against the rest?…”

Displacement : Derrida and after

Table of Contents: “…Op writing / Gregory Ulmer -- Staging, Mont Blanc / Herman Rapaport -- A trace of style / Tom Conley -- Jacques Derrida and the heretic hermeneutic / Susan Handelman -- Hegel on the sublime / Paul de Man -- Deconstruction and social theory / Michael Ryan -- Displacement and the discourse of woman / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.…”

Experimental Chinese literature : translation, technology, poetics by Lee, Tong-King

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Chapter 1 Central Issues; Experimental Literature and its Modes of Materiality; Multimodality and Intersemioticity; Translation and the Translational; Technology; Chapter Outline; Chapter 2 Machine Translation and Hsia Yü's Poetics of Deconstruction; Death of the Translator; Translation and Deconstruction; Dichotomies Revisited; Pink Noise: Mode of Writing; Deconstructing Authorship; Romancing the Machine Poet; Transparent Meanings: Multimodality and Materiality; The Texts: Literary Meaning and its Discontents; Disjuncture and Divergence…”
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Interested parties : the ideology of writers and readers of the Hebrew Bible by Clines, David J. A.

Table of Contents: “…; 7 Job and the Spirituality of the Reformation; 8 A World Founded on Water (Psalm 24): Reader Response, Deconstruction and Bespoke Interpretation; 9 God in the Pentateuch: Reading against the Grain.…”
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Debate and dialogue : Christian and pagan cultures c. 360-430 / Debate and dialog by Kahlos, Maijastina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constructing and deconstructing dichotomies -- Debate, polemic and dialogue -- Religio and superstitio -- Ceremonies of light and dark -- Gods and demons.…”
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Recreating strategy by Cummings, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Deconstructing management -- pt. 2. Recreating strategy -- pt. 3. …”
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The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers by Gardner, John, 1933-1982

Table of Contents: “…Aesthetic law and artistic mystery -- Basic skills, genre, and fiction as dream -- Interest and truth -- Metafiction, deconstruction and jazzing around -- Common errors -- Technique -- Plotting -- Exercises.…”

Situating "race" and racisms in time, space, and theory : critical essays for activists and scholars

Table of Contents: “….: toward a critical literacy of racisms, anti-racisms, and racialization / Jo-Anne Lee, John Lutz -- Deconstructing race, deconstructing racism (with postscript 2004) / Jeannette Armstrong, Roxana Ng -- On being and not being brown/black-British / Ali Rattansi -- Mixed metaphors / Minelle Mahtani -- Turning in, turning out / Roy Miki -- Racist visions for the twenty-first century / Ann Laura Stoler -- Unravelling South Africa's racial order / Paul Maylam -- A critical discourse analysis of the Globe and Mail editorials on employment equity / France Henry, Carol Tator -- Orientalizing "War talk" / Yasmin Jiwani.…”
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Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization by Schram, Sanford

Table of Contents: “…The truth of globalization discourse -- Reversed polarities -- Truth is a woman -- Welfare as racemaking -- Recommodified discourse -- Deconstructing dependency -- Compassionate liberalism.…”
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Interpreting music by Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Hermeneutics -- Language -- Subjectivity -- Meaning -- Metaphor -- History -- Influence -- Deconstruction -- Analysis -- Resemblance -- Things -- Classical -- Modern -- Works -- Performance -- Musicology.…”
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Understanding dietary supplements by Hollenstein, Jenna

Table of Contents: “…-- The regulation of dietary supplements -- The safety of dietary supplements -- Deconstructing dietary supplements -- Researching dietary supplements.…”
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Interpreting music by Kramer, Lawrence, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Hermeneutics -- Language -- Subjectivity -- Meaning -- Metaphor -- History -- Influence -- Deconstruction -- Analysis -- Resemblance -- Things -- Classical -- Modern -- Works -- Performance -- Musicology.…”
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Literary theory : an historical introduction by Procházka, Martin

Table of Contents: “…JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896); WALTER PATER (1839-1894); New Criticism; Structuralism and Semiotics; ROMAN JAKOBSON (1896-1982); RENÉ WELLEK AND AUSTIN WARREN: THEORY OF LITERATURE; NORTHROP FRYE AND ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM; ROLAND BARTHES: MYTHOLOGIES; Deconstruction: an Introduction; Deconstruction in America; New Historicism; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Criticism; FEMINIST CRITICISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM; PART TWO: CONCEPTS AND METHODS; Metaphor; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Allegory; Symbol; Metre; Rhyme; Free Verse; Drama; Narrative Poetry; Narrative Structures…”
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