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Author Powell, Jason

Title Jacques Derrida : a biography / Jason Powell
Published London ; New York : Continuum, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages)
Contents Algeria -- Paris and the ENS -- After ENS -- The first book -- Against structuralism -- Structures in French thought -- 1967 -- Avant-garde philosophy -- America: Derrida as literary theory -- Glas -- GREPH -- Yale -- The post card -- Nietzsche and Heidegger -- The 1980s -- 1987-90, deconstruction and National Socialism -- Autobiographical years, 1990-91 -- The future of democracy and the very worst moment of capitalism -- Derrida's world: confronting Marx -- The Politics of friendship -- Derrida's religion -- Thoughtful welcoming of the other, Death -- 2000 onwards
Summary At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. Deconstruction, the movement that he founded, has received as much criticism as admiration and provoked one of the most contentious philosophical debates of the twentieth century. Jacques Derrida: A Biography offers for the first time a complete biographical overview of this important philosopher, drawing on Derrida's own accounts of his life as well as the narratives of friends and colleagues. Powell explores Derrida's early life in Algeria, his hi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index
Notes English
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Subject Derrida, Jacques.
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques. fast (OCoLC)fst00041147
Subject Philosophers, Modern -- France -- Biography
Philosophers, Modern.
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
France.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006297923
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