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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Bennington, Geoffrey

Paperback

Series: Religion and Postmodernism

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226042626
ISBN13: 9780226042626
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jun 15 1999
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. In an unusual and unprecedented dialogue, Derrida responds to Bennington's text by interweaving Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive periphrases. Truly original, this dual and dueling text opens new dimensions in Derrida's thought and work.

Bennington is a shrewd and well-informed commentator whose book should do something to convince the skeptics . . . that Jacques Derrida's work merits serious attention.-Christopher Norris, New Statesman & Society

Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida have presented a fascinating example of what might be called post-structuralist autobiography.-Laurie Volpe, French Review

Bennington's account of what Derrida is up to is better in almost all respects-more intelligent, more plausible, more readable, and less pretentious-than any other I have read.-Richard Rorty, Contemporary Literature

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