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The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1996
The Father of Deconstruction Reconstructed
You can give someone life--or you can put someone to death. But you cannot "give" someone their own death. Death is a "gift" because it insures our irreplaceableness in God's eyes; it is ours and ours alone. No one can die in my place no more than I can die in theirs. ...
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Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Push through it
When I first tried to tackle this book I was a first year undergrad philosophy and logic student - I declared Derrida my arche-enemy.
Three years later I am devoted to Derrida.
I eventually managed to push down the frustration (and at times, the blind rage) I felt ...
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Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview
Jacques Derrida
Melville Pubns, 2007
Chilling
My five stars is based on the overall value of this work. It offers a better insight into this man than any work ever has--including the film "Derrida" as well as his "Circumfession." If I were to base my rating on pure theoretical value, this would maybe be a "3 ...
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Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1980
Derrida all over the place
In the beginning of Jacques Lacan's work "the ethics of psychoanalysis", Lacan speaks of honey that has no natural divisions and is instantly all over the place. Enter Derrida. This was only the second work I had read by Derrida at the time a few years ago and it ...
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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1998
the fever that motivates this review...
Anyone who keeps a blog or produces any type of content will find value in understanding the archive. Where does this desire, this passionate fever for remembering arise and what sustains it? The archive has now become an accessible tool that changes the nature of the ...
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The Animal That Therefore I Am (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Jacques Derrida
Fordham University Press, 2008
A great (unfinished) work
This book assembles the entirety of Derrida's 1997 Cerisy address on the topic of that conference (dedicated to discussing his work) "The Autobiographical Animal." That said, it still remains an unbelievable unfinished work. While humorously (and seriously) talking ...
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The Politics of Friendship (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers)
Jacques Derrida
Verso, 2006
O Friends, There Are No Friends
This book has its origins in the seminar that Jacques Derrida gave during the academic year 1988-89, as part of his late attempt to grapple with issues of political philosophy that he also deals with in his Specters of Marx. The book itself is an extended replay of the ...
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Dissemination
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1983
Barbara Johnson provides an erudite translation.
Reading most of Jacques Dierrda's body of work is a task akin to Chinese water torture. Dierrda's project is to debunk the foundation of Western philosophy by subverting it's classic texts. Dierrida uses deconstructive readings of these texts to point out logical ...
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Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International (Routledge Classics)
Jacques Derrida
Routledge, 2006
hidden in the depths of words, nothing comes
If you come to "Spectres" expecting find some new insight, some vision to see into Marx, and the canonical texts, as "The German Ideology",Derrida cannot help you or the cause of illumination.Your eyes have grown old and weary trying to find where this light may ...
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Margins of Philosophy
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1985
Metaphor in the text of philosophy
In the 1980s, White Mythology was required reading for Yale lit-crit majors. It is an incredible tour de force so rich that its overwhelming in the initial read. How was it possible to write this (and how was it possible to translate?) The inescapability of ...
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Limited Inc
Jacques Derrida
Northwestern University Press, 1988
Who's serious?
"Let's be serious" Derrida writes. Then four paragraphs later he writes it again. Then several pages later again. What is the effect of this textual trope? It gives the reader the feeling that what Derrida has been writing, reasoning and arguing up to that point has ...
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Edmund Husserl's "Origin of Geometry": An Introduction
Jacques Derrida
University of Nebraska Press, 1989
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, consciousness, presence, and historicity. ...
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Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Jacques Derrida
Stanford University Press, 2005
Derrida Deconstructs the notion of "Rouge States"
If you are in to Derrida, political science, contemporary political philosophy, understanding the contemporary political landscape, and notions of a new Democracy to come - this is a must read.
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Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive (European Perspectives: A Series in ...
Jacques Derrida
Columbia University Press, 2008
Jacques Derrida argues that the feminist and intellectual Hélène Cixous is the most important writer working within the French idiom today. To prove this, he elucidates the epistemological and historical interconnectedness of four terms: genesis, genealogy, genre, and genius, and how they pertain to or are implicated in Cixous's work. Derrida ...
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Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Jacques Derrida
Stanford University Press, 2007
A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning
Psyche: Inventions of the Other Volume 1 is the first English-language publication of the essay collection that Professor of Humanities Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) originally published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. The assembly of essays present Derrida's thinking ...
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