| A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds Contributor(s): Derrida, Jacques (Author), Kamuf, Peggy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231066597 ISBN-13: 9780231066594 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 801 |
| LCCN: 90041354 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.95 lbs) 625 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kamuf, Peggy: - Peggy Kamuf (PhD, French Literature, Cornell) is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor Emerita of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Book of Addresses (Stanford, 2004), The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction (Chicago, 1997), Fictions of Feminine Desire (Nebraska, 1987), mSignature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Cornell, 1988), and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh, 2012) and the translator of a number of books by Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Helene Cixous, including A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (Columbia, 1991) and Artaud the Moma (Columbia, 2017). She is also a coeditor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida (Chicago). |