1st Edition

Derrida and Deconstruction

Edited By Hugh J. Silverman Copyright 1989
240 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The effects of Derrida's writings have been widespread in literary circles, where they have transformed current work in literary theory. By contrast Derrida's philosophical writings--which deal with the whole range of western thought from Plato to Foucault--have not received adequate attention by philosophers. Organized around Derrida's readings of major figures in the history of philosophy,... Read more
1 Plato's Pharmakon: Between Two Repetitions 2 Mysticism and Transgression: Derrida and Meister Eckhart 3 Derrida and Descartes: Economizing Thought 4 Derrida, Kant and the Performance of Parergonality 5 Derrida, Hegel and the Sign 6 Drawing: (An) Affecting Nietzsche: With Derrida 7 La Cloche 8 On Derrida's Introduction to Husserl's Origin of Geometry 9 Derrida, Heidegger and the Time of the Line 10 Derrida and Srtre: Hegel's Death 11 Derrida,Levinas and Violence 12 Derrida and Foucault: Madness and Writing

Biography

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of Inscriptions: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism, also published by Routledge, and is the general editor of the Continental Philosophy series.