Psyche
Inventions of the Other, Volume II
Published on 26. February 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8047-5767-6 (ISBN)
Description
Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. Advancing his reflection on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion, Volume II also carries on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: De Certeau, Heidegger, Kant, Lacoue-Labarthe, Mandela, Rosenszweig, and Shakespeare, among others. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, "Geschlecht I: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference," "Geschlecht II: Heidegger's Hand," "How to Avoid Speaking: Denials," and "Interpretations at War: Kant, the Jew, the German").
Reviews / Votes
"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work."-Michael Naas, DePaul University "This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought." -Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-5767-6 (9780804757676)
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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 Paper Machine (2005), On Touching-Jean-Luc Nancy (2005), 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
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Editors' Foreword iii Author's Preface iii @toc2:1 Psyche: Invention of the Other 0 2 The Retrait of Metaphor 00 3 What Remains by Force of Music 00 4 To Illustrate, He Said 000 5 Envoi 000 6 Me--Psychoanalysis 000 7 At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am 000 8 Des tours de Babel 000 9 Telepathy 000 10 Ex abrupto 000 11 The Deaths of Roland Barthes 000 12 An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter" 000 13 Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world" 000 14 My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies 000 15 Racism's Last Word 000 16 No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives 000 @toc4:Notes 000