Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy - Paperback

by Simon Morgan Wortham (Editor), Chiara Alfano (Editor)

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism.

This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well.

Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

Author Biography

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University, London, UK.

Chiara Alfano is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kingston University, UK.