Encountering Derrida by Simon Wortham

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Explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. This book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future.

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Encountering Derrida by Simon Wortham

Explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. This book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future.
'These articulate, often distinguished essays focus on the way Derrida creates a more reflective language, one that includes hesitation, play, and indeterminacy, and opens up to literature and testimony' Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus English & Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.
"Well-written throughout, Encountering Derrida incorporates a rich intersection of the fields and discourses that Derrida's writings decisively reconfigured." - Henry Sussman, Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
"If the contributors to this volume all seek to rethink and transform the contre relation to (and of) deconstruction, this volume can only be considered a success. The complex and challenging issues raised at the cutting edge of Derrida studies can only attest to the continuing significance Derrida and deconstruction have today, 'and, for that matter, tomorrow'(1)." -Sally Hart, Philosophy in Review, 2008
Simon Morgan Wortham is Reader in Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous publications include Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham University Press, 2006) and Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading (Ashgate, 2003). Allison Weiner has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University, USA.
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ISBN 13 9780826498939
ISBN 10 0826498930
Title Encountering Derrida
Author Simon Wortham
Series Continuum Studies In Continental Philosophy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2007-11-08
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.