Zepke aims to understand what Deleuze & Guattari mean by 'art', arguing that in their account art is an ontological term & an ontological practice that results in a new understanding of aesthetics. This book offers a thorough questioning of aesthetic criteria as they are normally understood.

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics.
Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret,...

Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative Realism movement.