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Understanding Derrida
Understanding Derrida
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Description
Jacques Derrida continues to be the world's single most influential philosophical and literary theorist. He is also one of the most controversial and most complex. His own works and critical studies of his work proliferate, but where can a student, utterly new to the work of Derrida, start?
Understanding Derrida is written as an introduction to the full range of Derrida's key ideas and influences. It brings together the world's leading authorities on Derrida, each writing a short, accessible essay on one central aspect of his work. Framed by a clear introduction and a complete bibliography of Derrida's publications in English, the essays systematically analyze one aspect of Derrida's work, each essay including a quick summary of Derrida's books which have addressed this theme, guiding the student towards a direct engagement with Derrida's texts.
The essays cover language, metaphysics, the subject, politics, ethics, the decision, translation, religion, psychoanalysis, literature, art, and Derrida's seminal relationship to other philosophers, namely Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Hegel and Nietzsche.
Table of Contents
1. Editor's Introduction Jack Reynolds and Jon Roffe
Part I: Themes in Derrida
2. Language (Michael Naas, DePaul University)
3. Metaphysics Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff
4. The Subject (Christina Howells, Oxford)
5. Politics Paul Patton, University of New South Wales
6. Ethics Simon Critchley, University of Essex
7. Decision Jack Reynolds, University of Tasmania
8. Translation Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne
9. Religion Kevin Hart, University of Notre Dame
10. Psychoanalysis Matthew Sharpe, University of Auckland
11. Literature Claire Colebrook, University of Edinburgh
12. Art (Julian Wolfreys, Uni of Florida)
Part II: Derrida & Others
13. Edmund Husserl David Allison, State University of New York
14. Martin Heidegger Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis
15. Emmanuel Levinas Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales
16. GWF Hegel David Rathbone, University of Melbourne
17. Friedrich Nietzsche (Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris)
Bibliography of all Derrida's English publications
Product details
Published | Jun 01 2004 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 184 |
ISBN | 9781441176783 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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"The most important offering for assessing Derrida's contribution to philosophy is Reynolds and Roffe's Understanding Derrida, which brings together introductory pieces from important philosophers and Derrida scholars, including David Allison, Robert Bernasconi, and Simon Critchley...By extracting the properly philosophical elements of Derrida's work, Reynolds and Roffe have produced a careful invitation that truly and compellingly shows Derrida to be a serious philosopher we should study and from whom we can learn." -Edvard Lorkovic, Philosophy in Review

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