Understanding Derrida / edited by Jack Reynolds and Jonathan Roffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Jack, 1976- editor.

Roffe, Jon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jacques Derrida continues to be the worldGÇÖs single most influential philosophical and literary theorist. He is also one of the most controversial and most complex. His own works and critical studies of his work proliferate, but where can a student, utterly new to the work of Derrida, start?Understanding Derrida is written as an introduction to the full range of DerridaGÇÖs key ideas and influences. It brings together the worldGÇÖs leading authorities on Derrida, each writing a short, accessible essay on one central aspect of his work. Framed by a clear introduction and a complete bibliograph

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of texts by Derrida; Chapter One: An Invitation to Philosophy; Chapter Two: Language; Chapter Three: Metaphysics; Chapter Four: Politics; Chapter Five: Ethics; Chapter Six: Decision; Chapter Seven: Religion; Chapter Eight: Psychoanalysis; Chapter Nine: Literature; Chapter Ten: Art; Chapter Eleven: The Subject; Chapter Twelve: Translation; Chapter Thirteen: Encounters with Other Philosophers; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-165) and index.

ISBN:

1-4725-4778-0

1-283-20720-6

9786613207203

1-4411-7678-0

OCLC:

741691692