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Writing and difference /

By:

Derrida, Jacques

Contributor(s):

Bass, Alan [translator,, writer of introduction.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1978.Description: xx, 342 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0226143287
9780226143286
0226143295 (pbk.)
9780226143293 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Ecriture et la diff�erence. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LOC classification:

B2430.D482 E5 1978

Summary: "First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought--one of his main targets being the way in which 'structuralism' unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and L�evi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and diff�erence--the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical 'concept' that does not exclude writing--for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis."-- From back cover.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	B2430.D482 E5 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16055000498

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