Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings

by Stocker; Barry

• ISBN13: 9780415366427
• ISBN10: 0415366429
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida?s ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to present his most important philosophical writings and is an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Barry Stocker?s clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Derrida?s writings for the first time. The selections themselves range from his most infamous working including Speech and Phenomena and Writing and Difference to lesser known discussion on aesthetics, ethics and politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Editor's introduction	p. 1
Metaphysics	p. 25
Of Grammatology: 'Exergue' and 'The end of the book and the beginning of writing'	p. 27
Dissemination: 'The pharmakon'	p. 56
Language and meaning	p. 83
Speech and Phenomena: 'Meaning as soliloquy'	p. 85
Margins of Philosophy: 'Signature Event Context'	p. 105
Consciousness	p. 135
Speech and Phenomena: 'The supplement of origin'	p. 137
Margins of Philosophy: 'Form and meaning: a note on the phenomenology of language'	p. 157
Epistemology	p. 181
Introduction to Origin of Geometry	p. 183
Writing and Difference: 'Structure, sign and play in the discourse of the human sciences'	p. 210
Ethics	p. 235
'Hostipitality'	p. 237
Politics of Friendship: 'Oligarchies: naming, enumerating, counting'	p. 265
Politics	p. 297
'Onto-theology of national-humanism (Prolegomena to a hypothesis)'	p. 299
'The laws of reflection: Nelson Mandela, in admiration'	p. 324
Literature and aesthetics	p. 353
Writing and Difference: 'Force and signification'	p. 355
Truth in Painting: 'Parergon I Lemmata'	p. 399
Bibliography	p. 422
Further Reading	p. 424
Index	p. 429
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