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61. Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacques Derrida | |
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(1998-08-01)
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Radical Rethinking of Multi- vs Monolingualism
A meditation on language and culture In the book, Derrida reflects on his past as an Algerian Jew living under French colonialism. He raises questions about language politics, personal identity, cultural domination, the notion of a "mother tongue," and the idea of "metalanguage." He reflects on the practical mechanics of French colonial administration in Algeria, and on Algeria's Jewish population: "a disintegrated 'community,' cut up and cut off." He also discusses his own problematic relationship with the French language. I found "Monolingualism of the Other" absolutely gripping. Although Derrida's prose (as translated by Mensah) sometimes strikes me as convoluted to the point of obscurity, I often found Derrida's style to be elegant, even poetic, and very accessible. But be warned: if you're intimidated by phrases like "ontico-ontological re-mark," "a pre-egological ipseity," or "the hegemony of the homogeneous," the book may be a bit much to take. But many will, I believe, tear into this challenging text with gusto. I believe that the issues raised by Derrida in this book are relevant to many other cultural phenomena: the debate over Black English, the political and literary recognition of creole and pidgin languages, the ongoing efforts to preserve the Celtic languages, etc. If you have a serious interest in these and related issues, I strongly recommend this book.
strikingly readable
mildly interesting Nonetheless there is some interesting stuff here for the newcomer, especially anyone interested in what it means to have a language as 'one's own' or to have a 'mother tongue.'Derrida asks these questions in reference to his experiences as a French-speaking Algerian Jew and as a participant at a conference in French-speaking Louisiana (where this work was first presented).The whole book is about Derrida's problems with identity and language, and he is mildly interesting in drawing out some paradoxes like 'we only ever speak one language' and 'we never speak only one language.'He documents his personal problems with language, claiming that 'I feel lost outside the French language.' Yet Derrida writes in a very annoying style, creating new words every other page and presenting the book as if it were the transciption of a dialogue.It's also overpriced unless you're a Derrida fanatic, which means you probably already own it anyway. Not exactly a must read.
French as a site of at once Identification and Resistance |
62. Resistances of Psychoanalysis (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 140
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(1998-07-01)
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Derrida has said what he says here more clearly elsewhere. |
63. Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Hardcover: 328
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(2004-09-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes’ writing of the "Discourse on Method" in French, and of Kant’s and Schelling’s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a "university responsibility." Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is therefore invaluable for the light it throws upon an underappreciated aspect of Derrida’s own engagement, both philosophical and political, in struggles against the stifling of philosophical research and teaching. As a founding member of the Research Group on the Teaching of Philosophy and as one of the conveners of the Estates General of Philosophy, Derrida was at the forefront of the struggle to preserve and extend the teaching of philosophy as a distinct discipline, in secondary education and beyond, in the face of conservative government education reforms in France.As one of the founders of the Collège International de Philosophie, he worked to provide a space for research in and around philosophy that was not accepted or legitimated in other institutions.Documenting and reflecting upon these engagements, "Eyes of the University" brings together some of the most important and incisive of Derrida’s deconstructive work. |
64. Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 240
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(2002-03-17)
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Not Virginia Woolf... During the 1960s and into the 1970s, higher education was a centre of change and rebellion, in a polyvalent sense of these terms.Not only growth of the mind and new discoveries that inevitably lead to change, and not only reinterpretation and changing systems and structures due to the deconstruction of traditional and static frameworks, but literally through the rebellion and sometimes violent actions of students (with the support of not a few faculty members, in France and in America), change was taking place.There was a grand meeting called in France in the late 1970s with the intention of discerning the fate of the philosophical discipline, whose proposals (the Haby proposal) were never implemented, but whose spirit helped establish the College International de Philosophie. Derrida first looks at the right to philosophy, from the various ways this sentence can be constructed.What is a right to philosophy?Who has a right to philosophy?What is assumed as foundational and institutional, and what looks out beyond these to horizons? What are rights?Derrida places much emphasis on linguistic interpretation and deconstruction, looking both at the right to language and the right of language in the quest for the right to philosophy.There is a vast amount of privilege here. Derrida looks at the roles of teachers, the very concept and the structure of faculty classes today and in the past.He identifies a crisis in teaching, particularly in the teaching of philosophy, in historical and conceptual paradigms.Philosophy would always be borne of crisis and finds its life in crisis - it is only in the constancy of questions that philosophy continues, which means a constancy of doubt and the unknown, and this can represent crisis.However, there are more `concrete' crises which deal with the political (is philosophy doing what the institution, supported by the state, wants it to do?) and the broader intellectual context of the rise (perhaps dominance) of the mathematical and physical sciences all the while undergoing their own crisis of confidence. This is not an easy text,nor is it one that readers of general philosophy will find of interest.It assumes two things - a high degree of familiarity with Derrida, and a high degree of familiarity with the societal situation in philosophy education, particularly in France.In some ways, this could be a post-modern response to John Henry Newman's `Idea of a University'; in the midst of the particular, Derrida does address in his typical fashion larger ideas of importance to higher education today. ... Read more |
65. Glas by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 262
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(1990-01-01)
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How to Read Rigorously--Derrida Through Hegel
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66. Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994 (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 516
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(1995-02-01)
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67. Veils (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida | |
Hardcover: 120
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(2002-09-01)
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68. Starting with Derrida by Sean Gaston | |
Paperback: 234
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(2008-01-22)
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Editorial Review Product Description Starting with Derrida argues for the importance of the relationship between philosophy, literature and history in Derrida's work and addresses all the key concepts in Derrida's thought, including his work on time and space, being and the soul, sensation and thought, history and literature, the concept and the name. The book encourages the reader to enter Derrida's varied and complex legacy through the moments in Derrida's work that are concerned with the question of origins and beginnings. By actively engaging with Derrida's ideas in this way, Gaston reveals a new and highly original reading of Derrida's work and provides a useful introduction to his entire corpus. This exciting new book is essential reading for students of philosophy and literary theory and, indeed, anyone interested in the work of this hugely important thinker. |
69. The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe (Studies in Continental Thought) by Jacques Derrida | |
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(1992-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself? Navigating in and through texts of Marx, Husserl, and especially Valéry, Derrida seeks a redefinition of European identity that includes respect both for difference and for universal values. The Other Heading appeals eloquently for a sustained effort at thinking through the complexity and the multiple dangers and opportunities of the contemporary world situation without resorting to easy or hasty solutions. |
70. Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 160
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(1988-01-01)
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Derrida on Speech-Act Theory
Clearly Put
Who's serious? Limited Inc is a collection of three short pieces which encapsulate the famous exchange (or polemic?) b/w the late Austin, Derrida and american philosopher Searle. The first essay is Derrida's critique of Austin's earliest statement of Speech Act theory: "How to do things with Words". The second is Derrida lengthy reply to Searle's criticisms of Derrida's first essay (Searle is the crusader of contemporary Speech Acts.. Mr. Speech Acts, if you will) and the third, and perhaps most insightful is "Afterword" an interview with Derrida several years after the fact, where Derrida reflects on the "violence" of the earlier Searle-Derrida exchange. I give Limited Inc a 5 star rating for simply the addition of "Afterwords". This interview is the (in my experience) clearest statement of Derrida's project of deconstruction-- to lessen the "violence" of philosophical practices and bring them to a new contextual level where they no longer operate undetected. It is also Derrida's first direct response to many of the (I believe) misdirected attacks on deconstruction -- e.g., the much misunderstood phrase "il n'y a pas d'ors text" -- there is nothing outside the text, which Derrida states vehemently, means not that there is no "reality" outside of a text (idealism) but, there is nothing outside of "context". It is points like this, I believe, which will help clear up a lot of the speculation surrounding Derrida's philosophy *and* politics. Limited Inc, I predict, will be an integral text in bringing Derrida's unique philosophical enterprise its into the Post-Wittgensteinian analytic tradition where it deserves to be studied.
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71. Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Immanuel Kant, Transformative Critique by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 192
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(1998-10-13)
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Editorial Review Product Description In Raising the Tone of Philosophy, Peter Fenves expands the context of Jacques Derrida's work on voice and tonality by presenting the first English translations of two of Kant's important late essays, "On a Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy" and "Announcement of a Near Conclusion of a Treaty for Eternal Peace in Philosophy." The book also includes a revised translation, by John Leavey, of Derrida's "On a Newly Arisen Apocalyptic Tone in Philosophy," which rewrites and reorients Kant's essays. After showing how Kant and Derrida concur on at least one point -- the voice of reason guards a secret -- Fenves proposes that these essays reveal the ineluctable tonality of all philosophical texts, especially those that wish to announce an end to philosophy. "Not only an indispensable text for readers of Kant and Derrida; it also encourages our hopes for that degree of clarity and light which we mere mortals may fleetingly enjoy." -- Michigan Quarterly Review "Fenves has done an admirable job of tracing the occasion of Kant's polemics on tone." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "This handy volume makes available [Derrida's] 'deconstructive' analysis of the Kantian critical tradition which has been heretofore unavailable to the English reading public." -- Reader's Review "The chances of finding Derrida together with a philosopher like Kant are slim. In Peter Fenves's impeccably edited Raising the Tone of Philosophy, such an improbability is not only realized but is precisely what is at stake." -- TLS |
72. Derrida For Beginners by Jim Powell | |
Paperback: 192
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(2007-08-21)
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Breaks the hymen of the virgin reader
10 reasons you shouldn't be embarrassed to be seen reading this book...
Only Book on Deconstruction That Has Made Sense to Me
very helpful
Accessible. Important.Powerful knowledge for any human. |
73. Religion (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo | |
Paperback: 224
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(1998-09-01)
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Reflections on Religion on the Island of Capri
A Neccessary Conversation My personal impression of the bookis that Derrida reveals the type of religious issues that he offered us inhis _Circumfessions_ and is wonderfully explicated in John Caputo's_Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida_.Vitiello's essay "Toward aTopology of the Religious" is insightful and necessary (if onlyNietzsche could have read it!).
arrogant cowardice
not nothing
SUPERB |
74. Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) by Jacques Derrida, Outi Pasanen | |
Paperback: 222
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(2005-10-01)
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An intensely scholarly text for advanced students of philosophy and literature |
75. Futures: Of Jacques Derrida (Cultural Memory in the Present) | |
Paperback: 272
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(2002-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description These readings are neither prescriptive, definitive, nor definitional. Each essay seeks out, in the work it studies, those moments that pronounce or propose futures that enable speculation, moments in which the speculator has to make promises. As Derrida says in his essay, "Between lying and acting, acting in politics, manifesting one's own freedom through action, transforming facts, anticipating the future, there is something like an essential affinity. . . . The lie is the future." Or, in the words of Werner Hamacher, "The futurity of language, its inherent promising capacity, is the ground-but a ground with no solidity whatever-for all present and past experiences, meanings, and figures which could communicate themselves in it." These essays, though arising from deconstruction, point out the ways in which deconstruction has yet to occur, and they do so by scanning the unattainable horizons marked off by thinkers at the forefront of our modern era. |
76. The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy | |
Paperback: 288
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(2007-08-20)
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77. Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume II (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 352
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(2008-02-26)
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78. Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Michael Naas | |
Paperback: 248
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(2002-10-03)
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79. Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | |
Paperback: 344
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(2002-02-11)
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80. Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacques Derrida | |
Paperback: 424
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(2002-02-05)
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