Derrida by Christina Howells
aeo An up--to--date, wide--ranging and outstanding introduction to Derridaa s work. aeo A clear and lucid assessment of Derridaa s writings which offers accessible explanations of his more difficult theories and terms (eg grammatology, deconstruction, differance, trace, etc).
"Christina Howells has written a sharply focused study which will delight equally those who have not yet started reading Derrida and those who cannot stopIts concise and elegant expositions of texts ranging from his very early to his very recent ones will disarm all but the most dogmatic of Derridaphobes, showing them gently but firmly that their resistance arises from their own misconstruction of how deconstruction works. All Derridaphiles will wish that they themselves had written this just and responsible book." John Llewelyn, lately Reader in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Professor at the University of Memphis and Loyola University of Chicago
"As we have come to expect from Christina Howells' exemplary earlier work on Sartre, this book on Derrida is comprehensively researched, clearly written and strongly argued. It is a valuable and much-needed addition to the literature that will be essential reading for anybody interested in Derrida." Simon Critchley, University of Essex
"interesting – her claims around the idea that deconstructive readings subject philosophical texts "to the same kind of analysis as literary ones" are particularly thought-provoking" Simon Glendinning, Times Literary Supplement
Christina Howells is Reader in French and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745611686 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745611680 |
| Title | Derrida |
| Author | Christina Howells |
| Series | Key Contemporary Thinkers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1998-11-08 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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