Signature Derrida
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- Synopsis
- Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that "Critical Inquiry" encouraged. Collecting the best of DerridaOCOs work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, "Signature Derrida" provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. aThese essays define three significant OC periodsOCO in DerridaOCOs writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays like OC The Law of Genre, OCO in which Derrida produces a kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, OC The Linguistic Circle of Geneva, OCO embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The final period of DerridaOCOs writing includes the essays OC Of SpiritOCO andaOC The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow), OCO and three eulogies to the intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Emmanuel L(r)vinas, in which Derrida uses the ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their theories. aWith an introduction by Francoise Meltzer that provides an overview of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher, "Signature Derrida "is the most wide-ranging, and thus most representative, anthology of DerridaOCOs work to date.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226924557
- Publisher:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/12/15
- Copyrighted By:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.