Disfigurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics

This book consists of a reformulation of poststructuralist theory allowing not only for difference - as has generally been par for the course in such discourse - but also allowing for commonality through the medium of the phenomenological critique of Heidegger, Husserl and others. As the introduction states, "debates about postmodernity have...tended to be polarized either between totality or plurality. This description avoids such a counterposing and consequently discovers a new open space for theoretical discourse." In short, Angus points the way beyond "the rebound from universality" of the late twentieth century without advocating a return to it either; it is the contours of this paradox itself that are explored in the pages of this very interesting book.