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A Derrida Reader - Between the Blinds by Peggy Kamuf; Jacques Derrida
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.
Acts Of Religion by Derrida Jacques
Category: Culture
Acts of Religion, complied in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The esssays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditi ...Show more
Antonin Artaud - Drawings and Portraits by Paule Thévenin, Jacques Derrida
Category: Art
Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, with many artworks reproduced in color.Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)--stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual artist--was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist movement for his refusal to renounce the ...Show more
Artaud the Moma by Jacques Derrida; Kaira M. Cabañas; Peggy Kamuf
Category: Culture | Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
Dissemination by Jacques Derrida; Barbara Johnson (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
"In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weav es] 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 be the literature of truth." New StatesmanJacqu ...Show more
Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry - An Introduction by Jacques Derrida; John P. Leavey Jr. (Translator)
Category: Reference
Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry": An Introduction (1962) is Jacques Derrida's earliest published work. In this commentary-interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Derrida relates writing to such key concepts as differing, co ...Show more
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness by Jacques Derrida
Category: Culture | Series: Thinking in Action
Is it possible to uphold international hospitality and justice in the face of nationalism and civil strife in so many countries? Using examples of treatment of minorities in Europe, Derrida probes the thinking behind cosmopolitanism.
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis ...Show more
The Gift of Death: AND Literature in Secret by Jacques Derrida
Category: Architecture | Series: Religion and Postmodernism Series
"The Gift of Death", Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book "Given Time" about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida ana ...Show more
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida (Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris)
Category: Politics | Series: Religion and Postmodernism
The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyze ...Show more