1st Edition

Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings

Edited By Barry Stocker Copyright 2007
456 Pages
by Routledge

456 Pages
by Routledge

456 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Metaphysics  1. Of Grammatology: Exergue; The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing  2. Dissemination: The Pharmakon  Part 2: Language and Meaning  3. Speech and Phenomena 3: Meaning as Soliloquy  4. Margins of Philosophy: Signature Event Context  Part 3: Consciousness  5. Speech and Phenomena 7. The Supplement of Origin  6. Margins of Philosophy: Form and Meaning  Part 4: Epistemology  7. Introduction to Origin of Geometry 7  8. Writing and Difference 10: Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences  Part 5: Ethics  9. ‘Hostipitality’ (Angelaki 5/3)  10. Politics of Friendship 1: Oligarchies: Naming, Enumerating, Counting  Part 6: Politics  11. ‘Onto-Theology of National-Humanism’ (Oxford Literary Review 14)   12. ‘Admiration for Nelson Mandela’ (in For Nelson Mandela)  Part 7: Literature and Aesthetics  13. Writing and Difference 1: Force and Understanding  14. Truth in Painting: Lemmata

Biography

Barry Stocker (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) (Edited by)