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Introduction -- Chapter 1 Deconstruction versus Postmodernism: epistemology, ethics, aesthetics -- Chapter 2 Postmodern Ethics and the Trouble with Relativism -- Chapter 3 Deconstruction and the 'Unfinished Project of Modernity' -- Chapter 4 Deconstruction, Postmodernism and Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 5 'The Idea of the University': some interdisciplinary soundings -- Chapter 6 Ethics, Autonomy and Self-Invention: debating Foucault -- Chapter 7 'The Night in which All Cows are Black': Paul de Man, 'mere reading' and indifference to philosophy -- Chapter 8 Conflict, Compromise or Complementarity: ideas of science in modern literary theory -- Chapter 9 Sexed Equations and Vexed Physicists: the 'two cultures' revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Preface by David Jonathan Y. Bayot -- Introduction by Christopher Norris -- 1 On Deconstruction and Art: Conversation with Jacques Derrida -- 2 Between Deconstruction and Postmodernism: Points of Intervention: Interview with Tetsuji Yamamoto -- 3 Truth, Criticism, and the Politics of Theory: Interview with Anthony Arnove -- 4 Two Cheers for Cultural Studies: A Philosopher's View: Interview with Paul Bowman -- 5 Deconstruction, Anti-Realism, and Philosophy of Science: Interview with Marianna Papastephanou -- 6 Derrida and Indian Thought: Prospects for an East/West Dialogue?: Conversation with Alison Scott-Baumann -- 7 Remembering Frank Kermode -- 8 On Terry Eagleton -- 9 Terza Rima for Terry (Meaning by Hawkes) -- Interviewers / Contributors -- Index.

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