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21. Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Hélène Cixous | |
Paperback: 168
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(2005-08-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description A kaleidoscopic portrait of Derrida's life and works through the prism of his Jewish heritage, by a leading feminist thinker and close personal friend. From the circumcision act to family relationships, through Derrida's works to those of Celan, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais, Cixous effortlessly merges biography and textual commentary in this playful portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. |
22. Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction (SPEP) by Joshua Kates | |
Paperback: 352
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(2005-11-11)
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Pearls Before Swine
A Very Strange Book |
23. The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 190
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(1988-12-01)
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Don't be fooled indeed A criticism on this book is that Derrida focuses too much on 'microphilosophy'; indeed from a rigourous point of view autobiography is impossible... Différance, dissemination, archi-écriture, griffe, trace, etc... Though this remains, together with 'Éperons' an excellent introduction into Derrida's unusually nuanced thought.
Archewriting
Derrida reads the subject
This is really not a good book |
24. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings | |
Paperback: 456
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(2007-07-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida’s ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to present his most important philosophical writings and is an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Barry Stocker’s clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Derrida’s writings for the first time. The selections themselves range from his most infamous works including Speech and Phenomena and Writing and Difference to lesser known discussion on aesthetics, ethics and politics. |
25. Parages (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 280
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(2010-12-22)
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26. Insister of Jacques Derrida by Helene Cixous | |
Paperback: 160
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(2008-01-14)
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ease and assist |
27. Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 330
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(1985-01-01)
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Metaphors on the Margin
Metaphor in the text of philosophy
Reading Derrida...
Interesting but hardly radical I am not the first to point out that Derrida is a perceptive, subtle reader with a very keen eye for the hidden details."White Mythology" is an interesting discussion of the role of metaphor in philosophy and its consequences for philosophy.I am also not the first to complain that Derrida's taste for exegesis runs towards the extravagant and excessive.The aforementioned essay spans 65 pages for reasons that otherwise escape me.There is also the more serious problem in Derrida that his keen eye is not keen enough and he is too clever by half in his explication.At one point in the work he connects the greek word for intuiting (ie. seeing with the soul) "theorein" with the desire for death.Strictly speaking this is a conflation of the desire to be a god with the desire to be unconscious (a leftover from the decay of romanticism?).An elementary reading of Plato's Phaedrus makes this clear.His obsession with the "metaphysics of presence" is also a problem for the work, as he hitches his interpretations to this dubious construction and the interpretations ultimately suffer for it.This is not to say that there isn't much of philosophical interest in the work for Derrida gives the reader much to chew on.He reminds us that any serious reading of a text must devote itself scrupulously to the whole of the text and not just to those parts which we think are interesting.Though, perhaps, not the best place to start one's study of Derrida it is certainly worth a serious read if only to understand what some of the shouting is all about.
Very interesting ideas but a lot of work to learn them... In Margins the reader is treated immediately to an intersting idea of Derrida's - that the most important part of philosophy occurs in the "margins" of work.That is, it is the contextualization of ideas that is fundamentally important, not necessarily what is in them.This echoes what Bateson wrote quite a while ago in "Steps to an Ecology of the Mind", a much more accessible work; Lyotard also develops the idea of contextualization within "Postmodern Fables" through much more literary methods.Derrida's development of the differance and his views on Hegel are visionary and I enjoyed reading those sections in Margins; the rest I very difficult to digest even after several readings. Derrida's ideas of context within infinite regress of contexts put him in an interesting philosophical position since the paradox cannot be resolved.That is, by demonstrating the subjectivity of any literary (and what is the limit of the term literary - isn't everything literary?) work he basically undermines most of Western philosophy.Hegel was close but not quite willing to go far enough as Derrida demonstrates. In my opinion the more casual reader will be better off with the readily-available "Derrida for Beginners" type of books rather than trying to tackle this one.If this is part of a course then I suggest reading it while armed with some other overviews for reference. ... Read more |
28. Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Deridda's Specters of Marx (Radical Thinkers) by Jacques Derrida, Terry Eagleton, Frederic Jameson, Antonio Negri | |
Paperback: 278
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(2008-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description In a timely intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive program projected by Specters of Marx.The volume features sympathetic meditations on the relationship betweenMarxism and deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, AntonioNegri, Warren Montag, and Rastko Möcnik, brief polemical reviews byTerry Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiquesby Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's replyto his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexedrelationship between Marxism and deconstruction. Fredric Jameson, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Pierre Macherey and others engage in a debate on Marx with Jacques Derrida. Customer Reviews (4)
marx as private property
A good supplement to Specters of Marx
Reading and Misreading Derrida
Derrida never claimed to be a Marxist,-what's the fuss? |
29. The God Who Deconstructs Himself: Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) by Nick Mansfield | |
Paperback: 144
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(2010-06-15)
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30. Dissemination by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 400
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(1983-02-15)
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Important book
This made my head spin!
Barbara Johnson provides an erudite translation.
An Admittedly Limited Perspective
Masterful translation of a masterwork |
31. The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 552
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(1987-06-15)
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Repetition is bequeathed; the legacy repeated...
The first time is still best So far, all the other readers seem to have missed the point. First, this book is not about anything so feminine and smacking of vulgar Christianity as love and cushy feelings. Derrida says it's a poison pen letter. It's about hate. It may be "between lovers," but it's published for the whole world to admire and appraise, a radically different context than the relationship of husband and wife. Which the careful Derrida-phile will note was handled very carefully, almost cynically, in the Derrida "documentary." (Has there ever been a greater and more hilarious take on oral sex?) One wag commented that the book is only good for beach-reading. But that misses the serious side of Derrida, which is also the point. Rhetoric can be philosophy. Derrida is one hundred percent hilarious. But he's always pushing the philosophical envelope with his puns. To resort to a distinction that has a pragmatic value even though it utterly lacks any philosophical foundation, the use-mention distinction, when Derrida uses the word 'this,' he also means _that_. (Why does the use-mention distinction make no sense? Because when you say 'horse,' a _horse_ comes out of your mouth. As per Wittgenstein and the Stoics.) It's up to us lesser mortals to tease out the strands and levels until we can produce something as thoroughly competent. And simultaneously beautiful and ugly. Like orgasm. Which brings us to Lacan. Some say he's a charlatan. And you have to be suspicious of anyone who declares that they're not interested in truth, but falsity. But when the postmodernists say this what they mean is that the truth, which can potentially be known, is in being aware that you actually don't know. The idea goes back to Plato and his early Socratic dialogues. Stated like that, it isn't too far from Kant, who also believed that we can't actually know much, other than that there are stars above and some sort of moral rules within. (Nobody has ever agreed with him on his rules, including his great heir John Rawls.) Derrida doesn't differ much from Lacan. He abandons Oedipus for the same reasons as Deleuze (it's a self-fulfilling prophecy and alienated from real life). But the argument on the postal system only looks different from Lacan's account because Derrida says it is. That he got Lacan to agree with him says something about Derrida's prestige, so there must be something there. (Though Lacan's submission looks suspiciously like he doesn't submit--republishing the Ecrits in an edited down version where the offensive passages have been actively forgotten.) But when Lacan says that a letter always gets to its destination he means that it always misses its destination, because the person it's intended for is going to sometime pass away. ("The living is a species of the dead." Nietzsche.) Which is also Derrida's point. I haven't read Derrida's latest writings on Lacan but apparently there's a whole lot of a rapprochement. In his interviews with Roudinescu, A Quoi Demain, he considers his style to be Lacanian and a lot of his conclusions to be similarly disposed. Here's hoping the most consistently amusing of the post-Heideggerians remains a liberal individualist. Though it's probably going to be tough for him, given that the Straussists of the Whitehouse talk a similar talk and walk a similar walk. ("Jewgreek is Greekjew.") I believe the fact that Derrida is explicitly against the death penalty is the deciding difference. QED.
A book which can only be read among *other* books. The Postcard is a "collection" of various love-letters, supposedly burned in a fire, which has left pieces of text missing. Derrida has also included a few essays which he believes continues the analysis begun in the loveletters [envois]. The content of the loveletters covers a broad range of philosophical and personal questions - from philosophy of language - to the relation b/w Socrates and Plato - to personal encounters in (I suppose) Derrida's life as a philosopher. But the over all effect of this - this "re-contextualization" or in other words, this casting of philosophical questions in a format not usually considered "serious" -> love letters... the profundity, the importance, the dissemination of the questions take on a wholly different feel and effect. The feel and effect, of course, is hard to describe, but it is a way of playing with "philosophical sensibilities" -- what is "real" philosophy? What is "serious" philosophy? And what is the meaning of such questions in the most private of all communications - love letters between two intimate lovers. Of course, in typical Derridean style, he puns, and jokes his way, throwing punchlines out of every page. The envois are not an easy read. They can be tough, and confusing, especially with the 'missing text" which link ideas. The other essays included in The Postcard are equally a tough read, with a very interesting, but treacherous deconstruction of Lacan's analysis of Poe's "The Purloined Letter". The Postcard can only be understood as continuation of previously examined (Of Grammatology), argued (Limited Inc.), and illustrated (Glas) philosophical strategies employed by Derrida. And yes, Richard Rorty (an american post-enlightenment philosopher) totally misses the boat on this one. While, i believe Derrida is attempting to "play" with various aspects of the philosophical tradition (Derrida is by far the funniest philosopher, since, Nietzsche), The Postcard is merely an new way of asserting those same ideas Derrida laid out in Limited Inc and other books, that conceptual meaning is not fixed but disseminated and deferred [differance] to all possible contextual usages and instantiations. I know, this is merely one small aspect of Derrida's enterprise. But it is, I believe, the main purpose of The Postcard: to see how the meaning of philosophical questions regarding language, history, and the sequence of events, take on new meanings in the context of lost love lettes-- the same way a Post Card, which never reaches its destination-- takes on new meanings for the unintended third reader.
A book which can only be read among *other* books. The Postcard is a "collection" of various love-letters, supposedly burned in a fire, which has left pieces of text missing. Derrida has also included a few essays which he believes continues the analysis begun in the loveletters [envois]. The content of the loveletters covers a broad range of philosophical and personal questions - from philosophy of language - to the relation b/w Socrates and Plato - to personal encounters in (I suppose) Derrida's life as a philosopher. But the over all effect of this - this "re-contextualization" or in other words, this casting of philosophical questions in a format not usually considered "serious" -> love letters... the profundity, the importance, the dissemination of the questions take on a wholly different feel and effect. The feel and effect, of course, is hard to describe, but it is a way of playing with "philosophical sensibilities" -- what is "real" philosophy? What is "serious" philosophy? And what is the meaning of such questions in the most private of all communications - love letters between two intimate lovers. Of course, in typical Derridean style, he puns, and jokes his way, throwing punchlines out of every page. The envois are not an easy read. They can be tough, and confusing, especially with the 'missing text" which link ideas. The other essays included in The Postcard are equally a tough read, with a very interesting, but treacherous deconstruction of Lacan's analysis of Poe's "The Purloined Letter". The Postcard can only be understood as continuation of previously examined (Of Grammatology), argued (Limited Inc.), and illustrated (Glas) philosophical strategies employed by Derrida. And yes, Richard Rorty (an american post-enlightenment philosopher) totally misses the boat on this one. While, i believe Derrida is attempting to "play" with various aspects of the philosophical tradition (Derrida is by far the funniest philosopher, since, Nietzsche), The Postcard is merely an new way of asserting those same ideas Derrida laid out in Limited Inc and other books, that conceptual meaning is not fixed but disseminated and deferred [differance] to all possible contextual usages and instantiations. I know, this is merely one small aspect of Derrida's enterprise. But it is, I believe, the main purpose of The Postcard: to see how the meaning of philosophical questions regarding language, history, and the sequence of events, take on new meanings in the context of lost love lettes-- the same way a Post Card, which never reaches its destination-- takes on new meanings for the unintended third reader.
Read This Book The Post Card is a great book for anyone obessed with language, butnot because it will help them do research, but because it great fun to readwhile sunning on the beach or joke about while getting a cup of joe. Ididn't have any epiphanies while reading this book but I did get a tan. ... Read more |
32. Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) by Barry Stocker | |
Paperback: 216
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(2006-04-28)
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33. L'écriture et la différence (French Edition) by Jacques Derrida | |
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34. Derrida and Theology (Philosophy and Theology) by Steven Shakespeare | |
Paperback: 248
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(2009-08-25)
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35. Acts of Religion by Jacques Derrida | |
Hardcover: 448
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(2001-11-16)
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Editorial Review Product Description Acts of Religion brings together for the first time Derrida's key writings on religion, along with two new essays translated by Gil Anidjar that appear here for the first time in any language.These eight texts are organized around the secret holding of links between the personal, the political, and the theological.In these texts, Derrida's reflections on religion span from negative theology to the limits of reason and to hospitality. Acts of Religion will serve as an excellent introduction to Derrida's remarkable contribution to religious studies. Customer Reviews (2)
Derrida Not Dead Another Death
A Significant Philosophical / Religious Touchstone |
36. Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Mustapha Cherif | |
Hardcover: 136
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(2008-11-01)
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37. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 288
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(2006-05-25)
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An Essential Read for Would Be Intellectual Prophets
An important work
the indestructable Left!
A few extra comments...
Addressing Some Basic Misconceptions About Derrida's Work |
38. Jacques Derrida: Live Theory by James KA Smith | |
Hardcover: 176
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(2005-10-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers.It covers Derrida's corpus in its entirety - from his earliest work in phenomenology and the philosophy of language, to his most recent work in ethics, politics and religion.It investigates Derrida's contribution to, and impact upon such disciplines as philosophy, literary theory, cultural studies, aesthetics and theology. Throughout, the key concepts that underpin Derrida's thought are thoroughly examined; in particular, the notion of "the Other" or "alterity" is employed to indicate a fundamental continuity from Derrida's earliest to his latest work. The text emphasizes the importance of understanding Derrida's philosophical heritage as the key to understanding the interdisciplinary impact of his project.In the wake of Derrida's death, the book includes an "interview" that interrogates the very notion of "live" theory as a way into the core themes of deconstruction. Customer Reviews (1)
The first chapter was good |
39. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida) by Jacques Derrida | |
Hardcover: 368
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(2009-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001–2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because neither animals nor kings are subject to the law—the sovereign stands above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including La Fontaine’s fable “The Wolf and the Lamb,” Hobbes’s biblical sea monster in Leviathan, D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake,” Machiavelli’s Prince with its elaborate comparison of princes and foxes, a historical account of Louis XIV attending an elephant autopsy, and Rousseau’s evocation of werewolves in The Social Contract. Deleuze, Lacan, and Agamben also come into critical play as Derrida focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal. |
40. The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 160
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(2007-10-01)
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Derrida Gets Religion
Donner la Mort
Old Testament Abraham and the Secret
Killing the son.
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