Michael PAYNE et John SCHAD [dir.], Life. After. Theory, London, The Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007, 128 p.
ISBN 0826494722
RÉSUMÉ
Is there life after theory? If the death ofthe Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what'sleft? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theorybrings together new interviews with four theorists who are left, each amajor figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, TorilMoi, and Christopher Norris. Framed and introduced by Michael Payne andJohn Schad, the interviews pursue a whole range of topics, bothfamiliar and unfamiliar. Among other things, Derrida, Kermode, Moi andNorris discuss being an outsider, taking responsibility, valuing books,getting angry, doing science, listening to music, remembering Empson,rereading de Beauvoir, being Jewish, asking forgiveness, smoking inlibraries, befriending the dead, committing bigamy, forgetting toforget, thinking, not thinking, believing, and being mad. These fourkey thinkers explore why there is life after theory... but not as weknow it. Jacques Derrida is Professor at the École des Hautes Études enSciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a range ofextraordinarily influential works including Of Grammatology, Writingand Difference and Dissemination. Sir Frank Kermode is a former KingEdward VII Professor of English Literature at the University ofCambridge and author of, among many other books, The Sense of AnEnding: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, Shakespeare's Language, andNot Entitled, his memoirs. Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor ofLiterature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her books includeSexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, Simone de Beauvoir:The Making of an Intellectual Woman and What Is a Woman? And OtherEssays. Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor inPhilosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published some twentybooks to date, including, most recently, Deconstruction and theUnfinished Project of Modernity, Quantum Theory and the Flight fromRealism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence,and Hilary Putnam: Reason, Realism, and the Uses of Uncertainty.
À PROPOS DES AUTEURS
Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania.
John Schad is Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.