Given Time by Jacques Derrida
A consideration of the act of gift giving which considers how the recipient becomes indebted to the giver and enters into a circle of exchange. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts by Heidegger, Mauss, Benveniste, Levi-Strauss, and Baudelaire.
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are the two volumes of Psyche: Inventions of the Other (Stanford, 2007 and 2008). Gerhard Richter is Professor of German and Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life (Stanford, 2007). Jeff Fort is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Davis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226143132 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226143139 |
| Title | Given Time |
| Author | Jacques Derrida |
| Series | Carpenter Lectures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1992-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 182 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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