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Jacques Derrida
Collecting the best of the author’s work that was published in the Critical Inquiry journal between 1980 and 2002, this title provides an introduction to the philosopher and the evolution…
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Tim Herrick
This book deals with the common intellectual sources of Bakhtin and Derrida, and their varying responses to a range of philosophers. Previous comparisons have been made in terms of their…
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First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida’s work and scholarship about his work. It attempts to be comprehensive rather than…
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Mauro Senatore
An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.
Joshua Kates
Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a foundational French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered. This book offers discrete interpretations of Derrida’s two book-length 1967…
Michael Naas
Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition.
‘The best book so far about Derrida’s politics of the future.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California
Susanne Ludemann
A comprehensive presentation of, and engagement with, the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), against the backdrop of the political, cultural, and intellectual currents of his times.
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Examines the intersection between Jacques Derrida’s writing and the Gothic to theorize what the author calls Derrida’s poetics of the crypt. This title shows that Derrida’s Specters of Marx owes…
Simon Morgan Wortham
Provides an account of Jacques Derrida’s involvement in debates about the university. Derrida has long argued that philosophy simultaneously belongs and does not belong to the university. This book asks…
Michaela Fiserova
In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem - a complex aporia that underlines the topic of the handwritten as a sign of legal identification.
Helene Cixous
Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of…
This volume, consisting of a conversation with Derrida that is further elaborated by one of his leading interpreters, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida…
Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and…
Helene Cixous,Jacques Derrida
This book combines loosely ‘autobiographical’ texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. ‘Savoir’, by Helene Cixous, and Jacques Derrida’s A Silkworm of One’s Own.
This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida…
Derrida’s engagement with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy.
The essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is therefore invaluable for the light it throws upon…
This brings together five pieces written by Jacques Derrida as extended lectures.
This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals.
Published in 1967, when Derrida is 37 years old, Voice and Phenomenon appears at the same moment as Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. All three books announce the new…
This collection aims to introduce the student reader to the wide-ranging, stimulating and innovative thought of Jacques Derrida, one of the twentieth-century’s most significant thinkers in literature, philosophy and art.
An introduction to Derrida’s contribution to literary studies comprising much of Derrida’s writing on writers such as Shakespeare, Mallarme, Joyce and Kafka.
Originally publishedin 1995, Advances was written by Jacques Derrida as a longforeword to a book by one of his most promising former students, thephilosopher Serge Margel's Le Tombeau du DieuArtisan
Reveals some of Derrida’s probing etymological and philosophical reflections on the relation of language to the human. This work also contains his essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine…
The influential French philosopher, Derrida, discusses the analytic of death in Heidegger’s Being and Time in a new book that set standards for the discussion of Heidegger and for dealing…
Derrida, notorious French philospher, literary critic and film star, is responsible for the fundamental change in the way that literature and philosophy are approached in the Western world.
The influential French philosopher, Derrida, discusses the analytic of death in Heidegger’s Being and Time in a new book that will set new standards for the discussion of Heidegger and…
This volume makes available in English leading philosopher, Jacques Derrida’s reflections on the individual’s relationship with his or her own language.
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Surveying Husserl’s major work on phenomenology , Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl’s notion of ‘genesis’ and gives a glimpse into the concerns that would…
You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into…
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In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger—each dealt with in one or more…
Explores the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. This title traces this association through an array of texts, including La Fontaine’s fable The Wolf and the Lamb…
Focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.
The newest in our lectures series, this one is from 1976 and ‘77 and covers Marx and Heidegger and prefigures Derrida’s work in Specters of Marx.
