Who is Jacques Derrida

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

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<p>"One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy." -- J. Hillis Miller, Yale University</p><p>Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the h...0 points

Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida

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This book makes available for the first time in English?and for the first time in its entirety in any language?an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the authorial sub...0 points

The Gift of Death, Second Edition &amp; Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism Series) by Jacques Derrida

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<i>The Gift of Death</i>, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book <i>Given Time</i> about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka's <i>Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History </i>and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Hei...0 points

Dissemination by Jacques Derrida

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"The English version of <i>Dissemination</i> [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives?against the grain of language?...0 points

Deconstruction &amp; Necessity

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