| Book of Addresses Contributor(s): Kamuf, Peggy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804750580 ISBN-13: 9780804750585 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: "What pleasure, what serious and playful pleasures I had reading this magnificent, substantial book. It is thoroughly knowledgeable, concerned both to guide the reader who is uncertain and to satisfy the one who is informed."--Helene Cixous, College International de Philosophie, Paris "Those of us uprooted by the force of Derrida's writing are fortunate to have Kamuf's book to guide us."--L'Esprit Createur |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 149 |
| LCCN: 2004023136 |
| Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.56" W x 9.34" (1.33 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, H l ne Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. |