Signature Derrida (a Critical Inquiry Book)
by Jacques Derrida /
2013 / English / PDF
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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close,
collaborative relationship with
Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close,
collaborative relationship withCritical Inquiry
Critical Inquiry and its
editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the
journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that
stemmed from the responses to his writing that
and its
editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the
journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that
stemmed from the responses to his writing thatCritical
Inquiry
Critical
Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida’s work
that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002,
encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida’s work
that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002,Signature Derrida
Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to
the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.
provides a remarkable introduction to
the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.
These essays define three significant “periods” in Derrida’s
writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle
stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of
his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public
intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as
animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays
like “The Law of Genre,” in which Derrida produces a kind of
phenomenological narratology. Another essay, “The Linguistic
Circle of Geneva,” embodies the second, presenting
deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was
imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of
linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The
final period of Derrida’s writing includes the essays “Of Spirit”
and “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” and
three eulogies to the intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault,
Louis Marin, and Emmanuel Lévinas, in which Derrida uses the
ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their
theories.
These essays define three significant “periods” in Derrida’s
writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle
stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of
his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public
intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as
animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays
like “The Law of Genre,” in which Derrida produces a kind of
phenomenological narratology. Another essay, “The Linguistic
Circle of Geneva,” embodies the second, presenting
deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was
imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of
linguistics was actually a repetition of earlier concepts. The
final period of Derrida’s writing includes the essays “Of Spirit”
and “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” and
three eulogies to the intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault,
Louis Marin, and Emmanuel Lévinas, in which Derrida uses the
ideas of each thinker to push forward the implications of their
theories.
With an introduction by Francoise Meltzer that provides an
overview of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher,
With an introduction by Francoise Meltzer that provides an
overview of the oeuvre of this singular philosopher,Signature
Derrida
Signature
Derrida is the most wide-ranging, and thus most
representative, anthology of Derrida’s work to date.
is the most wide-ranging, and thus most
representative, anthology of Derrida’s work to date.