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Derridada Derridada Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham Boulder New York Toronto Plymouth, UK Published by Lexington Books A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http:Nwww.lexingtonbooks.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright O 2009 by Lexington Books First paperback edition 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher. except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tucker. Thomas Deane, 1962- Derridada : Duchamp as readymade for deconstruction /Thomas Deane Tucker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968-Criticism and interpretation. 2. Deconstruction. I. Title N6853.DgT83 2009 709.2--dc22 ISBN: 978-0-7391-1622-7 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 978-0-7391-1623-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN: 978-0-7391-4584-5 (electronic) Printed in the United States of America eN The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSVNISO 239.48-1992. To my wife, Rana, without whose love and support this book would be little more than a murmur stranded in my sleep. Contents Chapter One A Time for Deconstruction Chapter Two Ashes to Dust, Dust to Ashes Chapter Three Indiffdrance Chapter Four Personas Notes Bibliography Chapter One A Time for Deconstruction Given the recent death of Derrida, we should hardly be surprised that some of his most ardent critics have already tolled the final death knell of deconstruction. As an academic fashion, deconstruction has been pro- nounced dead on numerous occasions in the past ten years. Yet, a cursory glance over the last decade at book titles, chapters, journal articles, and conference programs may lead one to think that the news of its demise is perhaps a bit premature. True, compared to its ubiquitous presence in the 1970s and 1980s deconstruction is on the wane, but yet, despite this re- treat, as an intellectual movement it remains a ghostly presence that con- tinues to haunt our intellectual landscape. The difficulty of working through the dense and complex terrain of Derrida's writing is notorious. An excursion into any of his works means negotiating the familiar territories of philosophy, literature, and art (to name but a few) where the signposts have been moved, shattered, or erased altogether. The reader follows a path through a labyrinth of lan- guage imbued with puns, wordplay, tropes, neologisms, and often diffi- cult translations from Greek, Latin, or from German into French or French into English. It is over this terrain that this book will (lightly) tread. Derrida's written work includes essays and books on an intimidating array of philosophers, writers, poets, and artists who have loomed large in the discourse of our time and others at the peripheries. He never hid in the shadow of another thinker's thought if it happened to fall into his
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