Dissemination

by Derrida, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9780826476968
• ISBN10: 0826476961
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

"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 StatesmanJacques Derrida (1930-) is Professor of Philosophy at École Normale SupÉrieure, Paris. Regarded as the founding father of Deconstruction, his influence on contemporary thought has been enormous. His impact on philosophy and literary criticism was assured by the publication of Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology.First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse. This is a groundbreaking work on the relationship and interplay between language, literature and philosophy.Translated, with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Barbara Johnson>

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction

Outwork, prefacing

Plato's Pharmacy

Pharmacia

The Father of Logos

The Filial Inscription: Theuth, Hermes, Thoth, Nabu, Nebo

The Pharmakon

The Pharmakeus

The Pharmakos

The Ingredients: Phantasms, Festivals, and Paints

The Heritage of the Pharmakon: Family Scene

Play: From the Pharmakon to the Letter and from Blindness to the Supplement The Double Session I II Dissemination

The Trigger

The Apparatus or Frame

The Scission

The Double Bottom of the Plupresent

wriTing, encAsIng, screeNing

The Attending Discourse

The Time before First

The Column

The Crossroads of the "Est"

Grafts, a Return to Overcasting

The Supernumerary

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