Critical Excess | Reader in French Colin Davis sku-13321847

Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell is a hardcover listed under Reader in French Colin Davis in Movements in Philosophy Books, SKU sku-13321847. It examines how Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek and Stanley Cavell read literature and film, placing their work within the intellectual debates to which it contributes.

The book considers the advantages and stakes of overreading, including questions about a note left by Nietzsche, Hitchcock and Lacan, and a motel-room blanket in relation to Kant's distinction between phenomena and things in themselves.