• Publisher: *cf.
• 211 pages
• Author: Jernej Habjan
• Original title: Literatura med dekonstrukcijo in teorijo

This book discusses literature as an everyday institutional practice. The more inseparable literature is from the everyday, the heteronomous, the more even its autonomous formal changes are relevant for the contemporary critical theory of culture. The book therefore simultaneously reads both existing discussions of literature and the everyday: on the one hand, the deconstructive readings of the philosophy of everyday language and, on the other, the new materialistic histories of the literary institution. Both projects are considered against the backdrop of their common historical conditions from their crucial confrontations during the fall of the Berlin Wall (the Derrida/Searle and the Jameson/Ahmad discussion) to their canonisations at the time the Twin Towers collapsed (Derrida visiting Judith Butler, critiques of Moretti).

About the author

Jernej Habjan

Jernej Habjan (1979) is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has had fellowships at Princeton University, the University of Munich, and at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies. In his research, he focuses on the conceptions of literature in contemporary critical theory, world literature studies, and speech-act theory.