"Wheeler not only builds a bridge between continental and analytic philosophy; he also traces a useful tow path between philosophy and literary theory."--The Comparatist
"This is the best job of analytic-Continental bridgebuilding I have come across. Wheeler presents Davidson and Derrida, very convincingly, as two philosophers who have common enemies and are aiming at the same targets. His lucid and carefully argued book is full of original thinking, ingenious analogies, and spirited polemic." --Richard Rorty, Stanford University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Indeterminacy of French interpretation: Derrida and Davidson; 2. The extension of deconstruction; 3. Truth conditions, rhetoric, and logical form: Davidson and deconstruction; 4. Davidson, Derrida, and Knapp and Michaels on intentions in interpretation; 5. Metaphor according to Davidson and de Man; 6. True figures: metaphor and the Sorites; 7. A Rabbinic philosophy of language; 8. Deconstruction, Cleanth Brooks, and self-reference; 9. A deconstructive Wittgenstein: on Henry Staten's Wittgenstein and Derrida; 10. Wittgenstein as conservative deconstructor; 11. Deconstructed distinctions are OK; 12. Derrida's difference and Plate's different; Notes; Index.
