| Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida's Geschlecht Contributor(s): Krell, David Farrell (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438454503 ISBN-13: 9781438454504 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 193 |
| Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 378 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the 1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and published three incisive essays under the title Geschlecht, a German word for generation and sexuality. These essays focused on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, taking up the rarely discussed issue of sexual difference in Heidegger's thought. A fourth essay--actually the third in the series--was never completed and never published. In Phantoms of the Other, David Farrell Krell reconstructs this third Geschlecht on the basis of archival materials and puts it in the context of the entire series. Touching on the themes of sexual difference, poetics, politics, and criticism as practiced by Heidegger, Derrida's unfinished third essay offers a penetrating critical analysis of Heidegger's views on sexuality and Heidegger's reading of the love poems of Georg Trakl, one of the greatest Expressionist poets of the German language, who died during the opening days of the First World War. |