Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological ViewMacbeth is discussed in relation to Derrida's notion of the metaphysics of presence. Fawkner argues that the quest for metaphysical certitude in Macbeth is related to the hero's transformation from a heroic to a post-heroic status. |
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... deconstruction itself is an ideology , that it could or should be ideological . From that viewpoint , I resent certain tendentious slidings within the deconstructionist move- ment itself , slidings where deconstructions work in propagan ...
... deconstruction itself is an ideology , that it could or should be ideological . From that viewpoint , I resent certain tendentious slidings within the deconstructionist move- ment itself , slidings where deconstructions work in propagan ...
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... deconstruction interests itself in are not merely logical ( TM , 135 ) . The temptation to work a weak deconstruction on Macbeth is of course considerable , since weak deconstruction is reflexive and since Macbeth is a manifestly self ...
... deconstruction interests itself in are not merely logical ( TM , 135 ) . The temptation to work a weak deconstruction on Macbeth is of course considerable , since weak deconstruction is reflexive and since Macbeth is a manifestly self ...
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... deconstruction of presence . We saw , some time ago , how Derrida identified deconstruction as something that " thinks only on the level of the impossible and of what is still evoked as unthinkable . " 18 This Derridean " un ...
... deconstruction of presence . We saw , some time ago , how Derrida identified deconstruction as something that " thinks only on the level of the impossible and of what is still evoked as unthinkable . " 18 This Derridean " un ...
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