The Derrida Reader
Writing Performances
Published on 1. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-7486-0964-2 (ISBN)
Description
This reader brings together selected (complete or self-contained) texts which are not generally anthologised, particularly those which deal with specifically literary writers and literary topics. The collection focuses on a number of texts which address French writers and writers in French, such as Valery, Rousseau, Levi-Strauss, Baudelaire, Mallarme, while also addressing other concerns prominent throughout Derrida's career as a writer, such as Plato, Freud and Marx.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
629 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0964-2 (9780748609642)
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Person
Julian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, where he is also Director of the Centre for Studies in Literature. He is author and editor of more than 40 books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature and literary theory. Most recently he has published Dickens's London and The Derrida Wordbook, both with Edinburgh University Press. He recently published his first novel, Silent Music.
Content
Justifying the unjustifiable - a supplementary introduction. Part I: scribble - writing power; the battle of proper names (from "Of Grammatology"); the originary metaphor (from "Of Grammatology"); the "Retrait" of metaphor; economimesis. Part II: the time before the first (from "Dissemination"); from "Specters of Marx"; from "Memoirs of the blind"; the logic of the living feminine (from "Otobiographies"); qual quelle - Valery's sources; Khora.