Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question

Derrida, Jacques; translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby

ISBN 10: 0226143171 / ISBN 13: 9780226143170

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1989

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Complete number line from 1 to 5; minimal wear; previous owner's name on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 139 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226143171
• ISBN 13: 9780226143170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: American First.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman.

"Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. . . . . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts."—David Hoy, London Review of Books

"Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."—David Farrell Krell, Research in Phenomenology

"The analysis of Heidegger is brilliant, provocative, elusive."—Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review

About the Authors

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in their English translation by the University of Chicago Press.

Geoffrey Bennington is the Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author of several books on Derrida and translator of many others by him, and he is coeditor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series.