A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds - Softcover

Derrida, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231066597 ISBN 13: 9780231066594

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The book's five sections are carefully introduced by the editor, and each selection of Derrida's work is presented succinctly in context. A general introduction to the volume by Peggy Kamuf provides an original interpretation and overview of Derrida's work and philosophy.

About this title

About the Author

Peggy Kamuf is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.

From the Back Cover

The following is not exactly a dialogue, although in places it resembles an exchange that might actually have taken place between two interlocutors. Yet, one will notice as well a certain inconstancy in this resemblance. It is perhaps a typographical rather than a dialogic form that has imposed itself here, the back and forth of more than one 'voice' requiring the convention of blank intervals across the page. These, in turn, could be thought of as the slats of a Venetian blind, or a jalousie, which partially obstructs the view.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231066597
• ISBN 13: 9780231066594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 625
• Editor: Kamuf Peggy