| Description |
ix, 420 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Religion and postmodernism |
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Religion and postmodernism.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Jacques Derrida / Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida ; translated by Geoffrey Bennington. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- "This book presupposes a contract" -- Derridabase by Geoffrey Bennington -- With Time -- Remark -- The Beginning -- The Sign -- Writing -- Husserl -- Differance -- Context -- Beyond -- The Proper Name -- Circumfession by Jacques Derrida -- Time and Finitude -- Metaphor -- The Unconscious -- The Signature -- Translation -- Babel -- Literature -- The Gift -- Sexual Difference -- The Mother: Chora -- Femininity -- Politics -- The Title -- The Institution -- The Series: (Quasi-) Transcendental Questions -- The Closure -- The Jew -- Striction -- Being the Other -- The Machine -- Envoi -- Acts (The Law of Genre) -- Curriculum Vitae -- Bibliography (including list of abbreviations of Derrida's works cited in text) -- Supplemental Bibliography -- Illustration Sources -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Derrida, Jacques |
| Summary |
Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own excerpts from his life and thought that, appearing at the bottom of each page, resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a project. Bennington's account of Derrida, broader in scope than any previously done, leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet still widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar and altogether more mysterious themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. Seeking to escape this systematic rendering - in fact, to prove it impossible - Derrida interweaves Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases": reflections on his mother's death agony, commentaries on St. Augustine's Confessions, memories of childhood, remarks on Judaism, and references to his collaborator's efforts. This extraordinary book offers, on the one hand, a clear and compelling account of one of the most difficult and important contemporary thinkers and, on the other, one of that thinker's strangest and most unexpected texts. Far from putting an end to the need to discuss Derrida, Bennington's text might have originally intended or pretended, this dual text opens new dimensions in the philosopher's thought and work and extends its challenge |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Notes |
Translation of: Jacques Derrida |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-419) |
| Subject |
Derrida, Jacques.
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| SUBJECT |
Derrida, Jacques., http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79092610 1930
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| Subject |
Deconstruction.
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Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Derrida, Jacques.
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| LC no. |
92011186 |
| ISBN |
0226042618 (alk. paper) |
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