The Animal That Therefore I Am (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

The Animal That Therefore I Am (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 C risy conference entitled 'The Autobiographical Animal,' the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two

A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The book's five sections are carefully introduced by

Derrida for Beginners (Powell Jim)(Paperback)

In 1966, Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University that cast the entire history of Western Philosophy into doubt. The following year, Derrida published three brilliant but mystifying books that convinced the pollsters that he was the most important philosopher of the late 20th

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possible to uphold international hospitality and justice in the face of increasing nationalism and civil strife in so many countries? Drawing on examples of

The Beast & the Sovereign (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf,

Dissemination (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the cole Normale Sup rieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young

Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence

Margins of Philosophy (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

'In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger-each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin)

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology--fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic

The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Derrida: A Biography (Peeters)(Paperback)

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as

Of Grammatology (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy--called deconstruction--changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002-2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on

Derrida: A Very Short Introduction (Glendinning Simon)(Paperback)

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, wrote such famed works as Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and On Grammatology, has made important contributions to both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and indeed has challenged some of the unquestioned assumptions of our

Monolingualism of the Other Or, the Prosthesis of Origin (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

' I have but one language-yet that language is not mine.' This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of the distinguished author's own relationship to the French language. Its argument touches on several

The Politics of Friendship (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

'O, my friends, there is no friend.' The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future. Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconstruction, by turns

The Truth in Painting (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

'The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami,

Who Said That?: Take the Quote Quiz Challenge (Frank Owen)(Paperback)

Test your quote IQ Who said this? 'I think, therefore I am.' A. Marcus Aurelius B. Gautama Buddha C. Ren Descartes D. Nicolas Cage With hundreds of witticisms, musings, disses, words of inspiration, and canny observations, all wrapped up in the form of an addictive game with different ways

Of Hospitality (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

Consisting of two texts on facing pages, the form of this presentation of two 1996 lectures on hospitality by Jacques Derrida is a self-conscious enactment of its content. Invitation by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates a response), clarifying and

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Hgglund Martin)(Paperback)

Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious 'turn' in Derrida's thinking, H gglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding

Whose Baby Am I? (Butler John)(Paperback / softback)

A book with sturdy card pages that introduces the concept of mothers and babies in the animal world. It works as a guessing game - the animal with the question: 'Whose baby am I?' on one page and the answer revealed on the

Deals that Made the World (Peretti Jacques)(Paperback / softback)

Jacques Peretti tells the story of the secret history of the deals that are changing our

On Touchinga Jean-Luc Nancy (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical