Jacques Derrida

  • Jacques Derrida: A Biography
    By Jason Powell

    Northop Frye published his Anatomy of Criticism , giving a scientific purpose and appearance to literary criticism . Note the scientific pretensions for poetry as early as 1917 in T. S. Eliot's ' Tradition and the Individual Talent ' ...

  • Jacques Derrida: A Biography
    By Jason Powell

    A Biography Jason Powell. not have used these terms. ... come to prominence, 'Ponge' (1974), Derrida himself ('Les fins de l'homme') (1980), and 'Lyotard' (1982). A conference was again held on Derrida as recently as 2002 on 'The ...

  • Jacques Derrida
    By Nicholas Royle

    This volume introduces students of literature and cultural studies to Derrida's enormously influential texts, covering such topics as: deconstruction, text and difference; literature and freedom; law, justice and the 'democracy to come'; ...

  • Jacques Derrida
    By Nicholas Royle

    Nicholas Royle. 'Excellent, strong, clear and original'. Jacques Derrida. 'A strong, inventive and daring book that does much more than most introductions are capable of even dreaming'. Diane Elam, Cardiff University.

  • Jacques Derrida: Live Theory
    By James K. A. Smith

    Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers.

  • Jacques Derrida: Live Theory
    By James KA Smith

    John P. Leavey Jr. in Deconstruction and Philosophy, John Sallis, (ed.) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987). On the feminine in Levinas, see “At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am', trans. Ruben Berezdivin, in Re-Reading ...

  • Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings
    By Barry Stocker

    Barry Stocker’s clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Derrida’s writings for the first time.

  • Jacques Derrida
    By Leonard Lawlor, Zeynep Direk

    ... not One and the Same by nature and from the very beginning ( their terminal identity is supposed to be a result ) . Yet when " identity differs , as identity " ( Glas , 189 ) , i.e. , when identity itself has to be conceived as a ...

  • Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
    By Leonard Lawlor, Zeynep Direk

    Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

  • Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality
    By Jacques De Ville

    Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and specifically in relation to the texts of Husserl, Levinas, Freud and Heidegger ...

  • Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts
    By Claire Colebrook

    Presenting both an examination of the key concepts central to his thinking and a broader study of how that thinking shifted over a lifetime, the book offers the reader a clear, systematic and fresh examination of the astounding breadth of ...

  • Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines
    By Marian Hobson, Dr Marian Hobson

    In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker.

  • Jacques Derrida: Critical Thought
    By Ian MacLachlan

    This collection of essays on Jacques Derrida spans nearly thirty years of critical thinking about Derrida's work.

  • Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts
    By Claire Colebrook

    Presenting both an examination of the key concepts central to his thinking and a broader study of how that thinking shifted over a lifetime, the book offers the reader a clear, systematic and fresh examination of the astounding breadth of ...

  • Jacques Derrida
    By Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington

    Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a ...

  • Jacques Derrida: Live Theory
    By James KA Smith

    Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers.

  • Jacques Derrida: Host of Deconstruction
    By Christopher Watkin

    One of the most important thinkers of our time, Jacques Derrida continues to have a profound influence on postmodern thought and society.

  • Jacques Derrida: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
    By Leonard Lawlor, Zeynep Direk

    These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967.