Signature Derrida / Jacques Derrida ; edited and with a preface by Jay Williams ; introduction by Françoise Meltzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques, author.

Contributor:

Williams, Jay (James W.), editor, writer of added commentary.

Meltzer, Françoise, writer of added commentary.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 435 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Summary:

Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors, saving some of his most important essays for the journal. Collecting the best of Derrida's work that was published in Critical Inquiry between 1980 and 2002, Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define three significant "periods" in Derrida's 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. With an introduction from Francoise Meltzer providing an invaluable overview of Derrida's oeuvre, Signature Derrida is the most wide-ranging and representative anthology of Derrida's work to date. Book jacket.

Contents:

The law of genre

The linguistic circle of Geneva

Racism's last word

But, beyond... : open letter to Anne McClintock and Rob Nixon

Like the sound of the sea deep within a shell : Paul de Man's war

Biodegradables : seven diary fragments

Of spirit

Given time : the time of the king

"To do justice to Freud" : the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis

Adieu

By force of mourning

What is a "relevant" translation?

The animal that therefore I am (more to follow).

Notes:

Essays previously published in the journal Critical inquiry.

"A Critical inquiry book."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780226924526

0226924521

9780226924540

0226924548

0226924556

9780226924557

OCLC:

796931761

Publisher Number:

99953808003