Derrida, Jacques
Overview
Works: | 4,265 works in 13,600 publications in 22 languages and 442,843 library holdings |
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Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Interviews Poetry Biographies History Conference papers and proceedings Archives Pictorial works Academic theses |
Roles: | Author, Contributor, Author of introduction, Editor, Other, Interviewee, Translator, htt, Dedicatee, Director, Thesis advisor, Creator, Illustrator, Performer, Actor, wpr, Collaborator, Interviewer, Narrator, Honoree, 070, Lyricist, wat, Dedicator, Speaker, wst, dir, Originator, coo, pre, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Costume designer, Author in quotations or text abstracts |
Classifications: | B2430.D483, 194 |
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Most widely held works about
Jacques Derrida
- The ethics of deconstruction : Derrida and Levinas by Simon Critchley( )
- Deconstruction in a nutshell : a conversation with Jacques Derrida by Jacques Derrida( )
- The sovereignty of art : aesthetic negativity in Adorno and Derrida by Christoph Menke( )
- Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism by Christine van Boheemen( )
- Imagining Joyce and Derrida : between Finnegans wake and Glas by Peter Mahon( )
- Jacques Derrida : opening lines by Marian Hobson( )
- Jacques Derrida and the humanities : a critical reader by Tom Cohen( )
- The philosophy of Derrida by Mark Dooley( )
- The prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida : religion without religion by John D Caputo( )
- Derrida and deconstruction by Hugh J Silverman( )
- Derrida and Husserl : the basic problem of phenomenology by Leonard Lawlor( )
- Reading Derrida reading Joyce by Alan Roughley( )
- The architecture of deconstruction : Derrida's haunt by Mark Wigley( )
- The French connections of Jacques Derrida by Julian Wolfreys( )
- Jacques Derrida : a biography by Jason Powell( )
- Augustine and postmodernism : confessions and circumfession by John D Caputo( )
- Derrida and the future of literature by Joseph G Kronick( )
- Testing the limit : Derrida, Henry, Levinas, and the phenomenological tradition by François-David Sebbah( )
- Questioning God by John D Caputo( )
- Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida by Jacques Derrida( )
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Most widely held works by
Jacques Derrida
Of grammatology by
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262 editions published between 1966 and 2021 in 16 languages and held by 3,644 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Influential enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of structuralism have profoundly inflenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy"--Cover
262 editions published between 1966 and 2021 in 16 languages and held by 3,644 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Influential enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of structuralism have profoundly inflenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy"--Cover
Writing and difference by
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195 editions published between 1967 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 3,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought--one of his main targets being the way in which 'structuralism' unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence--the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical 'concept' that does not exclude writing--for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis."--
195 editions published between 1967 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 3,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought--one of his main targets being the way in which 'structuralism' unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence--the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical 'concept' that does not exclude writing--for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis."--
Margins of philosophy by
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146 editions published between 1972 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 2,228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essays discuss Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, linguistics, metaphor, and literary theory
146 editions published between 1972 and 2019 in 8 languages and held by 2,228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essays discuss Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, linguistics, metaphor, and literary theory
Dissemination by
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129 editions published between 1969 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 2,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The notorious French philosopher, literary critic and film star(!) First translated in 1983, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays provide original readings of philosophy and literature, and present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse. This is a groundbreaking work on the relationship and interplay between language, literature and philosophy
129 editions published between 1969 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 2,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The notorious French philosopher, literary critic and film star(!) First translated in 1983, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays provide original readings of philosophy and literature, and present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse. This is a groundbreaking work on the relationship and interplay between language, literature and philosophy
The truth in painting by
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80 editions published between 1978 and 2022 in 6 languages and held by 1,851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics."--A. Gelley, Library Journal
80 editions published between 1978 and 2022 in 6 languages and held by 1,851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics."--A. Gelley, Library Journal
The gift of death by
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49 editions published between 1992 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 1,660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Derrida's main concern is with the meaning of moral and ethical responsibility in Western religion and philosophy. He questions the limits of the rational and the responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Beginning with a discussion of Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy, Derrida develops Patocka's ideas concerning the sacred and responsibility through comparisons with the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and, finally, Kierkegaard. Derrida's treatment of Kierkegaard makes clear that the two philosophers share some of the same concerns. He then undertakes a careful reading of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, comparing and contrasting his own conception of responsibility with that of Kierkegaard, and extending and deepening his recent accounts of the gift and sacrifice. For Derrida, the very possibility of sacrifice, especially the ultimate sacrifice of one's own life for the sake of another, comes into question"--Jacket
49 editions published between 1992 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 1,660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Derrida's main concern is with the meaning of moral and ethical responsibility in Western religion and philosophy. He questions the limits of the rational and the responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Beginning with a discussion of Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy, Derrida develops Patocka's ideas concerning the sacred and responsibility through comparisons with the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and, finally, Kierkegaard. Derrida's treatment of Kierkegaard makes clear that the two philosophers share some of the same concerns. He then undertakes a careful reading of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, comparing and contrasting his own conception of responsibility with that of Kierkegaard, and extending and deepening his recent accounts of the gift and sacrifice. For Derrida, the very possibility of sacrifice, especially the ultimate sacrifice of one's own life for the sake of another, comes into question"--Jacket
The animal that therefore I am by
Jacques Derrida(
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27 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 1,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction - dating from Descartes - between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises"--Book cover
27 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 1,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction - dating from Descartes - between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises"--Book cover
The post card : from Socrates to Freud and beyond by
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77 editions published between 1980 and 2020 in 6 languages and held by 1,547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, and the nature of communication
77 editions published between 1980 and 2020 in 6 languages and held by 1,547 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Examines the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, and the nature of communication
Cinders by
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43 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jacques Derrida's Cinders is among the most remarkable and revealing of this distinguished author's many writings. White Derrida customarily devotes his powers of analysis to exacting readings of texts from Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Heidegger, readers of Cinders will soon discover that here Derrida is engaged in a poetic self-analysis. Ranging across his numerous writings over the past twenty years, Derrida discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. First published in 1982, revised in 1987, and printed here in a bilingual edition, Cinders enables readers to follow the development of Derrida's thinking from 1968 to the present as it defines itself as a persistent questioning of origins that invariably leads to the thought of ash and cinder. Written in a highly condensed poetic style, Cinders reveals some of Derrida's most probing etymological and philosophical reflections on the relation of language to the human. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary poetry and philosophy. Uniquely accessible to readers who have only recently begun to read Derrida and essential for all those familiar with Derrida's work, Cinders is an evocative and thoughtful contribution to our understanding of deconstruction. -- Publisher description
43 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jacques Derrida's Cinders is among the most remarkable and revealing of this distinguished author's many writings. White Derrida customarily devotes his powers of analysis to exacting readings of texts from Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Heidegger, readers of Cinders will soon discover that here Derrida is engaged in a poetic self-analysis. Ranging across his numerous writings over the past twenty years, Derrida discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. First published in 1982, revised in 1987, and printed here in a bilingual edition, Cinders enables readers to follow the development of Derrida's thinking from 1968 to the present as it defines itself as a persistent questioning of origins that invariably leads to the thought of ash and cinder. Written in a highly condensed poetic style, Cinders reveals some of Derrida's most probing etymological and philosophical reflections on the relation of language to the human. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary poetry and philosophy. Uniquely accessible to readers who have only recently begun to read Derrida and essential for all those familiar with Derrida's work, Cinders is an evocative and thoughtful contribution to our understanding of deconstruction. -- Publisher description
The secret art of Antonin Artaud by
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18 editions published between 1997 and 2019 in English and held by 1,431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the first English translation of two famous texts on Antonin Artaud's drawings and portraits. The book includes a series of haunting photographs of Artaud by Georges Pastier
18 editions published between 1997 and 2019 in English and held by 1,431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the first English translation of two famous texts on Antonin Artaud's drawings and portraits. The book includes a series of haunting photographs of Artaud by Georges Pastier
Ethics, institutions, and the right to philosophy by
Jacques Derrida(
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11 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume reflects Jacques Derrida's views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian, and he looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations. This new book reflects Derrida's latest views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. In this book, Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian. He looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations at a time when individual and national identities, knowledge and commerce, and human rights all are brought to world attention in new ways than they have been in the past. Following Derrida's writings on these issues, prominent scholars engage in a dialogue with him on his approach to understanding the ethics of international institutions and education today. Visit our website for sample chapters!
11 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume reflects Jacques Derrida's views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian, and he looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations. This new book reflects Derrida's latest views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. In this book, Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian. He looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations at a time when individual and national identities, knowledge and commerce, and human rights all are brought to world attention in new ways than they have been in the past. Following Derrida's writings on these issues, prominent scholars engage in a dialogue with him on his approach to understanding the ethics of international institutions and education today. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Jacques Derrida by
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55 editions published between 1973 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own excerpts from his life and thought that, appearing at the bottom of each page, resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a project. Bennington's account of Derrida, broader in scope than any previously done, leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet still widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar and altogether more mysterious themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. Seeking to escape this systematic rendering - in fact, to prove it impossible - Derrida interweaves Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases": reflections on his mother's death agony, commentaries on St. Augustine's Confessions, memories of childhood, remarks on Judaism, and references to his collaborator's efforts. This extraordinary book offers, on the one hand, a clear and compelling account of one of the most difficult and important contemporary thinkers and, on the other, one of that thinker's strangest and most unexpected texts. Far from putting an end to the need to discuss Derrida, Bennington's text might have originally intended or pretended, this dual text opens new dimensions in the philosopher's thought and work and extends its challenge
55 editions published between 1973 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own excerpts from his life and thought that, appearing at the bottom of each page, resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a project. Bennington's account of Derrida, broader in scope than any previously done, leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet still widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar and altogether more mysterious themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. Seeking to escape this systematic rendering - in fact, to prove it impossible - Derrida interweaves Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases": reflections on his mother's death agony, commentaries on St. Augustine's Confessions, memories of childhood, remarks on Judaism, and references to his collaborator's efforts. This extraordinary book offers, on the one hand, a clear and compelling account of one of the most difficult and important contemporary thinkers and, on the other, one of that thinker's strangest and most unexpected texts. Far from putting an end to the need to discuss Derrida, Bennington's text might have originally intended or pretended, this dual text opens new dimensions in the philosopher's thought and work and extends its challenge
The Derrida reader : writing performances by
Jacques Derrida(
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9 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Glas by
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65 editions published between 1974 and 2021 in 5 languages and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other"--
65 editions published between 1974 and 2021 in 5 languages and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other"--
The problem of Genesis in Husserl's philosophy by
Jacques Derrida(
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44 editions published between 1990 and 2021 in 4 languages and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction
44 editions published between 1990 and 2021 in 4 languages and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction
Specters of Marx : the state of the debt, the work of mourning, and the new international by
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53 editions published between 1993 and 2012 in English and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a reading of Marx's 'spectropoetics"--his obsession with ghosts, specters and spirits. Derrida argues that there is more than one spirit of Marx and that it is the responsibility of his heirs--we are all heirs of Marx--to sift through the possible legacies, the possible spirits, reaffirming one and not the other. He leads beyond the deafening disavowal of Marx today, a disavowal he sees as an attempt to exorcise Marx's ghost
53 editions published between 1993 and 2012 in English and held by 1,141 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Within the context of a critique of a "new world order" that proclaims the death of Marx and Marxism, Jacques Derrida undertakes a reading of Marx's 'spectropoetics"--his obsession with ghosts, specters and spirits. Derrida argues that there is more than one spirit of Marx and that it is the responsibility of his heirs--we are all heirs of Marx--to sift through the possible legacies, the possible spirits, reaffirming one and not the other. He leads beyond the deafening disavowal of Marx today, a disavowal he sees as an attempt to exorcise Marx's ghost
Archive fever : a Freudian impression by
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52 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling
52 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling
Artaud the Moma : interjections of appeal by
Jacques Derrida(
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16 editions published between 2017 and 2018 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums, while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida . . . will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings." For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida--and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist."--Back cover
16 editions published between 2017 and 2018 in English and held by 1,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums, while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida . . . will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings." For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida--and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist."--Back cover
Heidegger, philosophy, and politics : the Heidelberg Conference by
Jacques Derrida(
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9 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In February of 1988, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss, in French, the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought, particularly in light of the philosopher's engagement in Nazism. This book presents a transcription and translation of their reflections and exchanges with the audience"--
9 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In February of 1988, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss, in French, the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought, particularly in light of the philosopher's engagement in Nazism. This book presents a transcription and translation of their reflections and exchanges with the audience"--
The archeology of the frivolous : reading Condillac by
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54 editions published between 1973 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1746 the French philosophe Condillac published his Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, one of many attempts during the century to determine how we organize and validate ideas as knowledge. In investigating language, especially written language, he found not only the seriousness he sought but also a great deal of frivolity whose relation to the sober business of philosophy had to be addressed somehow. If the mind truly reflects the world, and language reflects the mind, why is there so much error and nonsense? Whence the distortions? How can they be remedied? In The Archeology of the Frivolous, Jacques Derrida recoups Condillac's enterprise, showing how it anticipated--consciously or not--many of the issues that have since stymied epistemology and linguistic philosophy. If anyone doubts that deconstruction can be a powerful analytic method, try this. -- Amazon.com
54 editions published between 1973 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1746 the French philosophe Condillac published his Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, one of many attempts during the century to determine how we organize and validate ideas as knowledge. In investigating language, especially written language, he found not only the seriousness he sought but also a great deal of frivolity whose relation to the sober business of philosophy had to be addressed somehow. If the mind truly reflects the world, and language reflects the mind, why is there so much error and nonsense? Whence the distortions? How can they be remedied? In The Archeology of the Frivolous, Jacques Derrida recoups Condillac's enterprise, showing how it anticipated--consciously or not--many of the issues that have since stymied epistemology and linguistic philosophy. If anyone doubts that deconstruction can be a powerful analytic method, try this. -- Amazon.com
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- Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976 Other Contributor Dedicatee
- Lévinas, Emmanuel Contributor Dedicatee
- Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 Author Contributor
- Deleuze, Gilles 1925-1995 Other
- Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 Author Contributor
- Bennington, Geoffrey Other Editor Author Contributor Creator Author of afterword, colophon, etc. Translator
- Joyce, James 1882-1941
- Caputo, John D. Other Interviewer Author Contributor Editor
- Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981 Author in quotations or text abstracts Dedicatee
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900
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Aesthetics Artaud, Antonin, Art--Philosophy Authorship Communism Criticism Deconstruction Derrida, Jacques Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de) Ethics France Freud, Sigmund, Generosity Genet, Jean, Gifts Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Homonyms Husserl, Edmund, Irreligion Isaac--(Biblical patriarch) Joyce, James, Kierkegaard, Søren, Knowledge, Theory of Language and languages--Philosophy Lévinas, Emmanuel Literature--Philosophy Marx, Karl, Memory (Philosophy) Metaphysics Ontology Patočka, Jan, Phenomenology Philosophers Philosophy Philosophy, French Poetry Post-communism Postmodernism Poststructuralism Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis and philosophy Psychology Religion Responsibility Sacrifice of Isaac Sein und Zeit (Heidegger, Martin) Space and time Structuralism Valéry, Paul, Writing
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Delida 1930-2004
Derida 1930-2004
Derida, Jacques 1930-2004
Deridā, Jāka
Derida, Žak.
Derida, Žak 1930-2004
Deridā, Žaks 1930-2004
Deridah, Z'aḳ
Deridah, Z'ak 1930-2004
Derrida
Derrida 1930-2004
Derrida J.
Derrida J. 1930-2004
Derrida, J. 1930-2004 (Jacques)
Derrida, J. (Jacques)
Derrida, J. (Jacques), 1930-2004
Derrida, Jackes
Derrida, Jackes 1930-2004
Derrida Jacques
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
Derrida, Jaques 1930-2004
Derrida, Žak 1930-2004
Derrida, Zhak
Derrida, Zhak 1930-2004
Dīrīdā, Ǧāk 1930-2004
Dirīdā, Jāk
Dirrīdā, Jāk
Iacobus Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida Algerian-born French philosopher (1930-2004)
Jacques Derrida Edebiyat eleştirmeni ve yapısökümcülük olarak bilinen eleştirel düşünce yönteminin kurucusu
Jacques Derrida filòsof francès
Jacques Derrida filosof francez
Jacques Derrida filósofo francés
Jacques Derrida filosofo francese
Jacques Derrida filósofo franses
Jacques Derrida filozof francez
Jacques Derrida filozof francuski
Jacques Derrida franca filozofo
Jacques Derrida francia filozófus
Jacques Derrida francouzský filosof
Jacques Derrida francuski filozof
Jacques Derrida francúzsky filozof
Jacques Derrida Frans filosoof
Jacques Derrida fransk filosof
Jacques Derrida französischer Philosoph, Begründer der Dekonstruktion
Jacques Derrida French philosopher
Jacques Derrida French philosopher (1930-2004)
Jacques Derrida philosophe français
Jacques Derrida Prantsusmaa filosoof
Jacques Derrida ranskalainen filosofi
Jacques Derrida skrivagner gallek
Jak Derrïda
Nterinta, Zak 1930-2004
Terida, Chak'ŭ 1930-2004
Terida, J. 1930-2004
Žak Derida
Žaks Deridā
Ζακ Ντεριντά
Деррида Ж
Деррида Ж. 1930-2004
Деррида Жак
Деррида, Жак 1930-2004
Жак Дерида
Жак Деррида
Жак Деррида французский философ и теоретик литературы
Жак Дерріда
Жак Дэрыда
Ժակ Դերիդա
Ժակ Դերիդա ֆրանսիացի գրող
דרידה, ז'אק
דרידה, ז'ק.
דרידה, ז'ק 1930-2004
ז'אק דרידה
ז'אק דרידה פילוסוף צרפתי
جاك دريدا
جاك دريدا، 1930-2004
جاك دريدا فيلسوف فرنسي
جاك دەررىيدا
جاک دئریدا
دريدا، جاك.
دريدا، جاك، 1930-2004
ديريدا، جاك
ديريدا، جاك، 1930-2004
ژاک دریدا
ژاک دریدا نویسنده و فیلسوف فرانسوی
डेरिडा
জাক দেরিদা Algerian philosopher
জাক দেরিদা ফরাসি দার্শনিক
ਦਰਿਦਾ
ஜாக்கஸ் தெரிதா
ഴാക്ക് ദെറിദ ഫ്രഞ്ച് തത്ത്വജ്ഞാനി
ჟაკ დერიდა
더리다, 야커 1930-2004
덕리체, 아극 1930-2004
데리다, 자끄 1930-2004
데리다, 자크 1930-2004
자크 데리다
ジャック・デリダ
ジャック・デリダ 哲学者
デリダ, J
デリダ, ジャック
デリダ, ジャック 1930-2004
德希達
德里達 1930-2004
徳里達, 雅克
雅克·德希達
雅克·德里达
雅克·德里达 法國哲學家
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