J. Hillis Miller on Deconstructio...

J. Hillis Miller on Deconstruction and Nihilism (The Limits of Pluralism 3)

Adventures Among Ideas by David Dennen

Episode notes

What is the relation between a critical text and a literary text? Is it like the relation between a parasite and its host? What about the relation between metaphysics and nihilism? In the third part of the “Limits of Pluralism” debate, we follow J. Hillis Miller in exploring these issues.

Keywords
literary criticismliterary theorywayne boothpluralismj hillis millerm h abramsdeconstructionnihilism