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Acts of Literatureby Jacques Derrida, Derek AttridgeISBN 0415900573 (0-415-90057-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Literature'Book summary: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 Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history, and Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, with suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and operation of literature in Western culture, and are highly original responses to individual literary texts. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. [via]
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Acts of Religionby Jacques Derrida, Gil Anidjar, Ecole Des Hautes EtudesISBN 0415924014 (0-415-92401-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Religion'Book summary:Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes two new essays by Derrida that appear here for the first time in any language, as well as a substantial introduction by Gil Anidjar that explores Derrida's return to his own "religious" origins and his attempts to bring to light hidden religious dimensions of the social, cultural, historical, and political. [via]
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Allegories of Readingby Paul De ManISBN 0300028458 (0-300-02845-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proustby Paul De ManISBN 0300023227 (0-300-02322-7)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Aporiasby Jacques Derrida, Thomas DutoitISBN 0804722528 (0-8047-2252-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impressionby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143678 (0-226-14367-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression'Book summary:In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technologyfruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.[via]
"Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and e-mail all get fused into another staggeringly dense, brilliant slab of scholarship and suggestion."The Guardian
"[Derrida] convincingly argues that, although the archive is a public entity, it nevertheless is the repository of the private and personal, including even intimate details."Choice
"Beautifully written and clear."Jeremy Barris, Philosophy in Review
"Translator Prenowitz has managed valiantly to bring into English a difficult but inspiring text that relies on Greek, German, and their translations into French."Library JournalMore editions of Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression:
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Counterfeit Moneyby Jacques Derrida, Peggy KamufISBN 0226143139 (0-226-14313-9)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Counterfeit Money'Book summary:Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.[via]
Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years.
For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.More editions of Counterfeit Money:
Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation With Jacques Derridaby Jacques Derrida, John D. CaputoISBN 0823217558 (0-8232-1755-8)
Softcover, Fordham Univ Pr
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Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophyby Mark C. TaylorISBN 0226791408 (0-226-79140-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy'Book summary:"There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day." Jacques Derrida[via]
"This invaluable philosophical sampler brings together many of the threads out of which deconstruction is woven. taylor's anthology does not make deconstruction easy; much more usefully, it provides a meticulous guide to the sources and significance of the difficulties. Barbara E. Johnson
"The book will be of great value as a set of readings with authoritative explanation for all those interested in the current relations of literature and philosophy. It is the best book of its kind I know. J. Hillis Miller, Yale UniversityMore editions of Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy:
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practiceby Christopher NorrisISBN 0415280109 (0-415-28010-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deconstruction: Theory and Practice'Book summary:Since first appearing in 1982 this book has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative text of its kind. While in no way oversimplifying the complexities of the subject, or understating the challenge it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader. For this revised edition the author has provided a substantial postscript which looks back over the past ten years of critical debate and seeks to correct some prevalent misunderstandings. The volume also contains an updated bibliography - among the most extensive of its kind - giving details of more than two hundred books published during that period. Some critics have dismissed deconstruction as a harmless academic game; others have denounced it as a terrorist weapon or a discourse of last-ditch nihilist unreason. As Norris demonstrates, both responses are equally wide of the mark. Focusing on Derrida's major texts, and offers a detailed commentary on his readings of Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Husserl, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, J.L. Austin and others, this book brings out the extraordinary subtlety and force that have characterized his project from the outset. Norris also examines the work of those North American critics - Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom - who in their own prolonged efforts to move beyond the old' New Criticism have variously registered the impact of Derrida's thought. [via]
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Derridaby Christopher NorrisISBN 0674198247 (0-674-19824-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Derrida and the End of Historyby Stuart SimISBN 1840460946 (1-84046-094-6)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Derrida for Beginnersby Jim Powell, Van HowellISBN 0863161391 (0-86316-139-1)
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A Derrida Reader: Between the Blindsby Peggy KamufISBN 0231066597 (0-231-06659-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'Book summary:In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. [via]
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Disseminationby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143341 (0-226-14334-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissemination'Book summary:"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strivesagainst the grain of languageto offer a sober revelation of truth. Literatureon the other handflaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Disseminationmore than any previous workDerrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth."Peter Dews, New Statesman[via] 
The Ear of the Other : Otobiography, Transference, Translation Texts and Discussions With Jaques Derridaby Claude Levesque, Christie V. McDonald, Peggy Kamuf, Avital RonellISBN 0805239537 (0-8052-3953-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ear of the Other : Otobiography, Transference, Translationby Jacques Derrida, Christie McDonald, Peggy Kamuf, Avital RonellISBN 0803265751 (0-8032-6575-1)
Softcover, University of Nebraska Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ear of the Other : Otobiography, Transference, Translation'Book summary:"Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."-South Atlantic Review "No writer has probed the riddle of the Other with more patience and insight than Jacques Derrida. . . . By rigorously interrogating the writings of major Western figures, Derrida not only forces a rethinking of the nature of reading and writing but calls into question basic as-sumptions about ourselves and our world. . . . The Ear of the Other will be especially useful to people who have little or no prior acquaintance with Derrida's work. . . . Through a careful reexamination of Nietzsche's autobiography Ecce Homo, Derrida elaborates some of the far-reaching implications of twentieth-century reinterpretations of human subjectivity."-Mark C. Taylor, Los Angeles Times Book Review. "Ably translated. . . . The long 'Roundtable on Autobiography' . . . is authentic philosophical discussion, illuminating not only the preceding lecture but Derrida's work as well."-Choice. [via]
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Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry, an Introductionby Edmund Husserl, Jacques DerridaISBN 0892540060 (0-89254-006-0)
Hardcover, N. Hays
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The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinasby Simon CritchleyISBN 0748612173 (0-7486-1217-3)
Softcover, Edinburgh Univ Pr
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The Gift of Death / Literature in Secretby Jacques Derrida, David WillsISBN 0226142779 (0-226-14277-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Death / Literature in Secret'Book summary:In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard.[via]
A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion.
"The Gift of Death is Derrida's long-awaited deconstruction of the foundations of the project of a philosophical ethics, and it will long be regarded as one of the most significant of his many writings."--Choice
"An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of relgion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida."--Booklist
"Derrida stares death in the face in this dense but rewarding inquiry. . . . Provocative."--Publishers WeeklyMore editions of The Gift of Death / Literature in Secret:
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Given Timeby Jacques Derrida, Peggy KamufISBN 0226143147 (0-226-14314-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Given Time'Book summary:Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt.[via]
Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years.
For both readers of Baudelaire and students of literary theory, this work will prove indispensable.More editions of Given Time:
Glasby Jacques Derrida, Richard Rand, John P. LeaveyISBN 0803265816 (0-8032-6581-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glas'Book summary:- Galilée, Paris _1974, 25x25cm, broché, broché. - Edition originale sur papier courant. §Envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à un couple de proches amis. §Dos et plats marginalement insolés comme souvent, mors frottés, petites taches sur les plats, agréable état intérieur, exemplaire complet de son prière d'insérer. §Rare. [via]
How to Read Derridaby Penelope DeutscherISBN 0393328791 (0-393-32879-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalismby Benedict AndersonISBN 1844670864 (1-84467-086-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalism'Book summary:The definitive, bestselling book on the origins of nationalism, and the processes that have shaped it.
Imagined Communities, Benedict Andersons brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: what makes people live and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name?
Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the imagined communities of nationality, and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kinship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of secular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time and space. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the movements of anti-imperialist resistance in Asia and Africa.
In a new afterword, Anderson examines the extraordinary influence of Imagined Communities, and the book's international publication and reception, from the end of the Cold War era to the present day.
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Introducing Derridaby Jeff Collins, Bill MayblinISBN 1840466669 (1-84046-666-9)
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Introducing Derridaby Richard Appignanesi, Jeff Collins, Bill MayblinISBN 1874166382 (1-874166-38-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Derrida'Book summary:Jacques Derrida has undermined the accepted rules of philosophy, rejected its methods and concepts, broken its procedural limits and contaminated philosophy with literary and other kinds of writing. Derrida's philosophy is an initially puzzling array of oblique, deviant and yet rigorous tactics for destabilizing texts, meanings and identities. "Deconstruction", as these strategies have been called, has been reviled as a politically pernicioius nihilism and celebrated as a liberatory politics of indifference. This work introduces the key strategies of Derrida's writings, explains the major controversies they have caused, and shows how Derrida himself has put these strategies to use in literature, art, architecture, and politics. [via]
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Limited Inc.by Jacques DerridaISBN 0810107880 (0-8101-0788-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Margins of Philosophyby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143260 (0-226-14326-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margins of Philosophy'Book summary:"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heideggereach dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) and on the nature of metaphor ("White Mythology"), the latter with important implications for literary theory. Derrida is fully in control of a dazzling stylistic register in this booka source of true illumination for those prepared to follow his arduous path. Bass is a superb translator and annotator. His notes on the multilingual allusions and puns are a great service."Alexander Gelley, Library Journal[via] 
Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulationby Michael RyanISBN 0801832489 (0-8018-3248-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Of Grammatologyby Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakISBN 0801858305 (0-8018-5830-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Grammatology'Book summary:The author is one of the most acclaimed thinker, and expounder of philosophic process of thought of our time. Influence enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of strucuralism have profoundly influenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy. Derrida`s philosophical background baffles some literary critics. This role of exposing the common assumption shared by combatants in a controversy raises Derrida`s importance above merely the French scene. [via]
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Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Questionby Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington, Rachel BowlbyISBN 0226143198 (0-226-14319-8)
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On Cosmopolitanism and Forgivenessby Jacques DerridaISBN 0415227127 (0-415-22712-7)
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On Deconstructionby Jonathan CullerISBN 041504555X (0-415-04555-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Deconstruction'Book summary:With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relationship between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics.
Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralismby Jonathan CullerISBN 0801492017 (0-8014-9201-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism'Book summary:From reviews of the first edition?"Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Culler's On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition of the ideas of Jacques Derrida and their application to literary studies."-David Lodge, Commonwealth"Culler is lucid and thorough, can move into and out of other people's arguments without losing the sense of his own voice and argument, and can manage to seem equally at home with Freudianism, feminism, and traditional literary criticism."-Times Literary Supplement"As a practicing critic Culler has always been a deconstructor, and he approaches this topic with special immediacy and force. In On Deconstruction he offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography. . . . His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of critical texts, and his provocative analyses, cannot fail to focus any critic's thinking about deconstruction."-Modern Language Quarterly"Gifted with grace and clarity, Culler provides us with a stimulating survey of contemporary literary criticism."-Antioch ReviewWith an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today. [via]
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On the Nameby Jacques Derrida, Thomas DutoitISBN 0804725551 (0-8047-2555-1)
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The Philosophy of the Limitby Drucilla CornellISBN 0415902398 (0-415-90239-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Philosophy of the Limit'Book summary:In The Philosophy of the Limit Drucilla Cornell examines the relationship of deconstruction to questions of ethics, justice and legal interpretation. She argues that renaming deconstruction "the philosophy of the limit" will allow us to be more precise about what deconstruction actually is philosophically and hence to articulate more clearly its significance for law. Cornell's focus on the importance of the limit and the centrality of the gender hierarchy allows her to offer a view of jurisprudence different from both the critical social theory and analytic jurisprudence. [via]
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Points . . .: Interviews, 1974-1994by Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Weber, Peggy KamufISBN 0804724881 (0-8047-2488-1)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Points . . .: Interviews, 1974-1994'Book summary:This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.[via]More editions of Points . . .: Interviews, 1974-1994:
The Politics of Friendshipby Jacques Derrida, George CollinsISBN 1844670546 (1-84467-054-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics of Friendship'Book summary:Jacques Derrida is known primarily, and until recently, as the major proponent of deconstruction; always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of the day. Derrida's "political turn" was marked by the appearance of "Specters of Marx". In this study, Jacques Derrida renews this orientation through an examination of the political history of the idea of friendship pursued down the ages. Derrida's thoughts are haunted throughout the book by the strange and provocative address attributed to Aristotle, "O my friends, there is no friend", and its inversions by later philosophers, such as Montaigne, Kant, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Blanchot. The exploration allows Derrida to recall and re-stage the ways in which all the oppositional couples of Western philosophy and political thought - friendship and enmity, private and public life - have become dangerously unstable. At the same time, he dissects geneology itself, the familiar and male-centred notion of fraternity and the virile virtue whose autority has gone unquestioned in the Western culture of friendship and modern models of democracy. The future of the political, for Derrida, becomes the future of friends, the invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and more inclusive democracy. [via]
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Positionsby Christopher Norris, Jacques Derrida, Alan BassISBN 0826459927 (0-8264-5992-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Positionsby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143317 (0-226-14331-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the two major preoccupations of French intellectual life, Marxism and psychoanalysis.[via]
The interviews included in this volume offer a multifaceted view of Derrida. "Implications: Interview with Henri Ronse" contains a succinct statement of principles. "Seminology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva" provides important clarifications of the role played by linguistics in Derrida's work. "Positions: Interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta" is a wide-ranging discussion that touches on many of the polemics that Derrida's work as provoked.
Alan Bass, whose translation of Writing and Difference was highly praised for its clarity, accuracy, and readability, has provided extremely useful critical notes, full of vital information, including historical background. 
The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyondby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143228 (0-226-14322-8)
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Signs of the Times: Destruction and the Fall of Paul De Manby David LehmanISBN 0671775944 (0-671-77594-4)
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Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New Internationalby Jacques Derrida, Peggy KamufISBN 0415389577 (0-415-38957-7)
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Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signsby Jacques DerridaISBN 081010590X (0-8101-0590-X)
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Spurs: Nietzsche's Styleby Jacques Derrida, Stefano AgostiISBN 0226143309 (0-226-14330-9)
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Spurs: Nietzsche's Style Eperons Les Styles De Nietzscheby Jacques Derrida, Stefano AgostiISBN 0226143333 (0-226-14333-3)
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The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflectionby Rodolphe GascheISBN 0674867017 (0-674-86701-7)
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The Truth in Paintingby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143244 (0-226-14324-4)
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Watchmenby Alan MooreISBN 0930289234 (0-930289-23-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watchmen'Book summary:Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to gather praise since.
The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite
A Q&A with Dave Gibbons on the Making of Watchmen
Question: You were tasked with drawing new illustrations of key shots from the new Watchmen film. Was it a difficult challenge to re-imagine your work in this movie format?
Dave Gibbons: I dont think that I actually did many key shots from the film. I had to actually imagine them rather than exactly recreate what was going to be in the movie. But as far as the drawings I did for the licensing purposes, accuracy was the real key so that they looked exactly like the movie. Whereas doing the graphic novel was creating stuff afresh and being very creative, this was more the case of interpreting something that already existed. So it was rather more a commercial art job than a creative thing.
Q: How many scenes from the original graphic novel did you redraw in the new "movie" format?
DG: I kind of did them piecemeal, these licensing drawings. I did do a section of storyboarding for Zack Snyder. There is a part of the movie that isnt in the graphic novel and he wanted to see how I would have drawn it, if it had been in the graphic novel. So I redid the storyboards as three pages of comic on the nine-panel grid, also getting it coloured by John Higgins so it looked authentic. But I think there were probably only 3 or 4 scenes that I drew, which were from the movie.
Q: What was your working method for producing these new illustrations from the film? And how has it changed from when you originally illustrated Watchmen?
DG: When youre producing things from existing material, you have to look at and assemble the references... you know, keep looking backwards and forwards to make sure what youre drawing is accurate to whats in the photos. I did have lots of photos from the movie and in some cases I had more or less the illustration I was going to do in photo form, which made it a lot easier. On others I had to construct it from various references: really just the usual illustrators job of drawing something to reference. And on the original illustrations of Watchmen, I was free to come up with exactly the angles and exactly the costumes and everything that I wanted to. When youve designed a costume and drawn it a few times, you actually internalize it and you find you can draw it without having to refer to reference at all. So in some ways its more creative and in some ways its easier!
Q: In Watchmen: The Art of the Film, there are concept designs by other artists of their visions of your iconic characters. What do you think of their versions and did you offer any guidance while they were working on these?
DG: Its always really interesting to see versions of your characters drawn by other artists. You tend to see things in them that you hadnt noticed before. So I really enjoyed looking at those. I certainly didnt offer them any guidance. The purpose of getting those kinds of drawings done is to get a fresh perspective on what exists. I noticed actually that they really stuck more closely to my original designs than those, but I really enjoyed seeing them.
Q: Watchmen: Portraits is Clay Enoss stunning black and white collection of photos of each character from the Watchmen movie. What was it like looking through this book at all the characters you had conceived years ago now being brought to life by actors?
DG: Its rather interesting; you know if you look at the Watching the Watchmen book you can see these characters as fairly sketchy rough conceptual versions. Then when you look at Clays book you can actually see them right down to counting the number of pores on the skin on the end of their noses! Its incredible high focus! Its like zooming in through space and time to look at the surface of some moon of Saturn or something. I thoroughly enjoyed his book... it had a real artistic quality to it that was really so good. And of course to see these actors who so much are the embodiment of what I drew, that its a tremendous thrill to see them made flesh!
Q: Watchmen: The Film Companion features some stills from the animated version of The Black Freighter. What do you think of the look and design of this animated feature?
DG: It looks really interesting! Although I drew my version in the comic book in a kind of horror-comic style, these are very much in a savage manga style. I think they work really well... theyve got the kind of manic intensity, which I think that work should have and I really cant wait to see the whole feature. Ive seen the trailer for it and that looks great and again theyve used a lot of the compositions that I came up with but just translated them to this kind of very modern drawn animation.
Q: How much time did you spend on the set of Watchmen? Was it a surreal experience to see your work recreated like this?
DG: I was on the set of Watchmen for a couple of days and it really was surreal to walk through a door and then suddenly be in the presence of all these people in living breathing flesh! I was there for what you would call the Crimebusters meeting where they were all there in costume in the same room, which was incredible. They had obviously planned that so I would get to see everyone. It was surreal though quite a wonderful experience to see it come to life.
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Watchmen : The Absolute Editionby Alan Moore, Dave GibbonsISBN 1401207138 (1-4012-0713-8)
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The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterisation is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling, rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the fine pace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it retains its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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Writing and Differenceby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143295 (0-226-14329-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing and Difference'Book 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 thoughtone of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models.[via]
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 Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différencethe untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writingfor almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkerschallenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.
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De L'esprit: Heidegger Et La Questionby Jacques Derrida, College international de philosophieISBN 2718603232 (2-7186-0323-2)
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De La Grammatologieby Jacques DerridaISBN 2707300128 (2-7073-0012-8)
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Mal D'archive: Une Impression Freudienneby Jacques DerridaISBN 2718604549 (2-7186-0454-9)
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L'oreille De L'autre: Otobiographies, Transferts, Traductions Textes Et Debats Avec Jacques Derridaby Jacques Derrida, Christie McDonald, Claude LevesqueISBN 2890051366 (2-89005-136-6)
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Spectres De Marx: L'etat De La Dette, Le Travail Du Deuil Et La Nouvelle Internationaleby Jacques DerridaISBN 2718604298 (2-7186-0429-8)
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