After the Abyss: Theory Lives On

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. See Stanley Rosen's formulation of the ‘resistance’ to theory in “The Limits of Interpretation,” in Literature and the Question of Philosophy, ed. Anthony J. Cascardi (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 213–42. 2. Studies of the evolution of this rhetorical 'divide’ are thoroughly treated by Jacques Derrida in Limited Inc (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988), and Reed Way Dasenbrock in Redrawing the Lines: Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary Theory (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), cited by David Rudrum in his Introduction to “Part II: Encounters with Literature in Anglo-American Philosophy,” 38. 3. Due to the space constraints of a review, titles of essays are not always included in the synopsis of each section. See the online Table of Contents at http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=270516. 4. Michael Eskin cites passages from Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1986). 5. Jonathan Rée cites Brand Blanchard's On Philosophical Style (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1954), as characterizing the stylistic constraints of an era of philosophical discourse. 6. Walter Benjamin, “The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism,” in Selected Writings, vol. 1 (1913–26), ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA: Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, 1996), cited on pages 238–41. 7. Ibid., 151. 8. Rosen, “The Limits of Interpretation,” 214–15.