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Title Page 2 Copyright Page 3 Table of Contents 4 Acknowledgments 5 Preface 6 CHAPTER ONE - The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature 10 Plato and the Poets 11 Heidegger and the Truth of Poetry 16 Reading and Overreading 23 CHAPTER TWO - Derrida, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction 28 Derrida Reading/Reading Derrida 28 Gadamer/Derrida, Hermeneutics/Deconstruction 33 Derrida Reading Gadamer Reading 40 CHAPTER THREE - Deleuze: Against Interpretation 50 Against Interpretation 50 For Interpretation: Proust 57 Philosophy and Film 62 The Return of the Same 66 CHAPTER FOUR - Levinas and the Resistance to Reading 68 The Phenomenology of Reading 68 Sacred and Secular Texts 70 On Proust 79 Un amour de Swann 82 Conclusion 86 CHAPTER FIVE - Žižek’s Idiotic Enjoyment 88 Why the Letter Always or Never Arrives at Its Destination 92 Interpretation as Enjoyment 99 “As Every Reasonable and Cultured Person Knows ...” 104 CHAPTER SIX - Cavell and the Claim of Reading 108 Philosophy and Film 112 The Knowledge of Film 116 A Bunch of Assertions 124 CHAPTER SEVEN - Conclusion: In Praise of Overreading 129 The Avoidance of Error 129 The Assault on Interpretation 135 The Hermeneutics of Overreading 139 Not

Author

Davis, Colin;

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

EN