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Derrida and Autobiography

Derrida and Autobiography

Paperback

Series: Literature, Culture, Theory, Book 16

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521465818
ISBN13: 9780521465816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 1 1995
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories; here Robert Smith offers a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing that mocks any self-centered finitude of living and dying. In this context, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new way, and finds new perspectives to analyze classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud and de Man.

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