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The conclusion returns to the reasons why the taboo on authorial intention was appealing in the first place and shows how poorly the concerns that motivated it were served by denying the stability of meaning and intention.
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François Cusset, “Preface to the English Edition” of French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co., Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), xx–xxi. It is ironic that Cusset’s project aims at correcting the way French theory has been interpreted in the course of its “American domestication” (xiii), which is to say he is protecting his chosen authorities from the destabilizing operation they apply to others.
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Farrell, J. (2017). Conclusion. In: The Varieties of Authorial Intention. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48977-3_6
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