Starting with Derrida Plato, Aristotle, and Hegel Sean Gaston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaston, Sean, author.

Series:

Starting with

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does one start with Derrida? In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the last century. Derrida claimed that 'However old I am, I am on the threshold of reading Plato and Aristotle .. we need to read them again and again and again.' In Starting with Derrida, Gaston introduces all Derrida's major works and ideas by tracing Derrida's reading (and re-reading) of Plato, Aristotle and Hegel throughout his writings. Starting with Derrida argues for the importance of the relationship between philosophy, literature and history in Derrida's work and addresses all the key concepts in Derrida's thought, including his work on time and space, being and the soul, sensation and thought, history and literature, the concept and the name. The book encourages the reader to enter Derrida's varied and complex legacy through the moments in Derrida's work that are concerned with the question of origins and beginnings. By actively engaging with Derrida's ideas in this way, Gaston reveals a new and highly original reading of Derrida's work and provides a useful introduction to his entire corpus. This exciting new book is essential reading for students of philosophy and literary theory and, indeed, anyone interested in the work of this hugely important thinker.

Contents:

Prologue: Palintropes

Part I: Histories - Of Literature

1. Starting with Plato

2. Herodotus: Almost pre-Socratic

3. The History - of Literature

4. Enter TIME

Part II: Histories - Of the Senses

5. A 'New' History - of the Senses

6. Leaping to Plato

7. Sense Certainty, Or

8. Cut Glas

Epilogue: Oedipus and Odysseus

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index

ISBN:

9786613123060

9781472547521

1472547527

9780826497857

0826497853

9781283123068

1283123061

9781441182364

1441182365

OCLC:

727649551