| The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gasché, Rodolphe (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674867017 ISBN-13: 9780674867017 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1988 Annotation: The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 86004673 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.07" W x 9.23" (1.11 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror (tain names the tinfoil, or lusterless back of the mirror) explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible. Rodolphe Gasch does what no one has done before in many discussions of Derrida, namely to tie his work in an authoritative way to its origins in the history of the criticism of reflexivity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gasche, Rodolphe: - Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. |