A Derrida Reader

Between the Blinds
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-231-06659-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 625 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The book's five sections are carefully introduced by the editor, and each selection of Derrida's work is presented succinctly in context. A general introduction to the volume by Peggy Kamuf provides an original interpretation and overview of Derrida's work and philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derrida, Jacques

Kamuf, Peggy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Between the Blinds

Part One: Difference at the Origin1. From Speech and Phenomena2. From Of Grammatology3. From "Difference"4. "Signature Event Context"5. From "Plato's Pharmacy"

Part Two: Beside Philosophy--"Literature"6. "Tympan"7. From "The Double Session"8. From "Psyche: Inventions of the Other"9. "Che cos'e la poesia?"

Part Three: More than One Language10. From "Des Tours de Babel"11. From "Living on: Border Lines"12. "Letter to a Japanese Friend"13. From "Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing"

Part Four: Sexual Difference in Philosophy14. From Glas15. From Spurs: Nietsche's Styles16. "Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference"17. From "At this Very Moment in This Work Here I Am"18. From Choreographies"

Part Five: Tele-Types (Yes, Yes)19. From "Le Facteur de la verite"20. From "Envois"21. From "To Speculate--on 'Freud'"22. From "ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce"

Bibliography of Works in Jacques DerridaSelected Works on Jacques Derrida and DeconstructionIndex of Works by Jacques DerridaIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Peggy Kamuf is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.