Half-title + TP + half-title + 9 - [407] + [409]-[411] = Table + [413]-[416] = Publisher's & Printer's information. Octavo. First Edition.Dissemination is a collection of essays on Plato, Mallarme, and Sollers. It represents one of Derrida's most complex analyses of the 'trace' as writing while serving as a critique of absolute knowledge in written texts. 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-to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature-on the other hand-flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination-more than any of his previous works-Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth. In publisher's printed wrappers with just a bit of creasing to the spine. A former owner's k signature ("S. Lawal") to the upper right corner of the first half title. Otherwise, a very lovely copy of one of Derrida's most popular works. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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Title

La Dissemination.

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Collection "Tel Quel" Aux Editions de Seuil, Paris

Publication Date

1972

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Soft cover

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FIRST EDITION.

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