The Origins of Deconstruction

In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself.

Author Biography

CLAUDIA BARACCHI is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA
GERARD BUCHER was Melodia E. Jones Professor of French at SUNY (Buffalo), USA, and now researches in Paris at the Collège International de Philosophie
CLAIRE COLEBROOK is the Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English Literature at Penn State University, USA
THOMAS DOCHERTY is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK
ROBERT EAGLESTONE is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK
MARC FROMENT-MEURICE is Professor of French at Vanderbilt University, USA
MARGARET GREBOWICZ is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Groucher College, USA
JOHN P. LEAVEY is Professor of English Literature at the University of Florida (Gainesville), USA
PAUL PATTON is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia
JEAN MICHEL RABATÉ is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
LYNNE TURNER is Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Loughborough, UK