Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn

University Press of Florida, 1995-08-20. Hardcover. New. 6x0x9. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xii, 171 p., 24 cm. <br> <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University <br> "Deconstruction and the Ethical Turn demonstrates the continuing importance of deconstruction and other related movements for current literary theory, insisting on the seriousness of the deconstructive enterprise, its philosophical background, and its possible usefulness for negotiating the political terrain of the postmodern university.