Authors:Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: series, postmodernism, religion, derrida, jacques
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0226042626
ISBN-13: 9780226042626
This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida’s strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington’s account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher’s familiar yet widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. In an unusual and unprecedented "dialogue," Derrida responds to Bennington’s text by interweaving Bennington’s text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases." Truly original, this dual and
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: jacques, derrida, seminars, volume, sovereign, beast
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226144283
ISBN-13: 9780226144283
When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001–2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinat
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: dissemination
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1983-02-15
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226143341
ISBN-13: 9780226143347
"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itse
Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: grammatology
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1998-01-08
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0801858305
ISBN-13: 9780801858307
"One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy." -- J. Hillis Miller, Yale UniversityJacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years
Author: Jim Powell
Publisher: For Beginners
Keywords: beginners, derrida
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-08-21
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1934389110
ISBN-13: 9781934389119
Derrida is one of those annoying geniuses you can take a class on, read half-a-dozen books by and still have no idea what he’s talking about. Derrida’s ‘writing’ is definitely confusing (it’s like he’s pulling the rug out from under the rug that he pulled out from under philosophy). But beneath the confusion, like the heartbeat of a bird in your hand, you can feel Derrida’s electric genius. It draws you to it; you want to understand it…but it’s so confusing. Jim Powell’s Derrida For Beginners is the clearest explanation of Derrida and deconstruction presently available i
Author: Christopher Norris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: derrida
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674198247
ISBN-13: 9780674198241
Jacques Derrida (born 1930) is undoubtedly the single most influential figure in current Anglo-American literary theory. Yet many scholars and students, not to mention general readers, would be hard put to give an account of Derrida’s own writings. In this admirably clear and intelligent introduction, Christopher Norris demonstrates that Derrida’s texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. Norris explains the significance of Derrida’s writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placin
Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: derrida
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0823230341
ISBN-13: 9780823230341
This book--the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars--is "for Derrida" in two senses. It is "for him," dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts of reading, as advocates for Derrida’s work. They focus especially on Derrida’s late work, including passages from the last, as yet unpublished, seminars. The chapters are "partial to Derrida," on his side, taking his part, gratefully submitting themselves to the demand made by Derrida’s
