"This book presupposes a contract"Derridabase by Geoffrey BenningtonWith TimeRemarkThe BeginningThe SignWritingHusserlDifferanceContextBeyondThe Proper NameCircumfession by Jacques DerridaTime and FinitudeMetaphorThe UnconsciousThe SignatureTranslationBab...
This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From "Speech and Phenomena" to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes...
The notorious French philosopher, literary critic and film star(!) First translated in 1983, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'....
"Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and...
Thinking in Action is a major new series that takes philosophy to the public. Each book in the series is written by a major international philosopher or thinker, engages with an important contemporary topic and is clearly and accessibly written. The serie...
This is the first truly representative selection of texts by Helene Cixous. The substantial pieces range broadly across her entire oeuvre, and include essays, works of fiction, lectures, and drama. Arranged helpfully in chronological order, the extracts...
This book brings together five powerful encounters. Themes central to all of Derrida's writings thread the intense confrontation between the most famous philosopher of our time and the Jewish poet writing in German who, perhaps more powerfully than...
Two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "Etat Voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries...
This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduction by Christopher Norris setting these key early interviews in the context of the full trajectory of...
Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.
This dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two friends who share a common history and intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are different, they have many common references: psychoanalysis, above...