
Limited Inc
Jacques Derrida(Author)
Gerald Graff(Editor)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. January 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8101-0788-5 (ISBN)
Description
Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of Derrida's most controversial idea, that linguistic meaning is fundamentally indeterminate because the contexts that fix meaning are never stable. Limited Inc includes an important new afterword by the author.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-0788-5 (9780810107885)
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Persons
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Rogues (2005), Eyes of the University (2004), For What Tomorrow... with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2004), Negotiations (2002), Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by Stanford University Press
Content
Editor's Foreword
Signature Event Context
Summary of "Reiterating the Differences"
Limited Inc a b c . . .
Afterword: Toward an Ethic of Discussion
Signature Event Context
Summary of "Reiterating the Differences"
Limited Inc a b c . . .
Afterword: Toward an Ethic of Discussion