Derrida: Writing Events Contributor(s): Morgan Wortham, Simon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847062474 ISBN-13: 9781847062475 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $217.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Explores the conditions of Derrida's writing and his immense contribution to philosophy, literature, critical and cultural theory. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 194 |
LCCN: 2007051298 |
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (0.83 lbs) 152 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories of Derrida's work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his thought? And how are we to reconcile the importance in Derrida of the unknowable event, the pull of the singular, with deconstruction's critical and philosophical rigour and its claims to rethink more systematically the ethico-political field. This book argues that this negotiation in fact allows deconstruction to reformulate the very questions that we associate with ethical and political responsibility and shows this to be the central interest in Derrida's work. |