Writing and Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing and Difference write by Jacques Derrida. This book was released on 2021-01-27. Writing and Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for 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 thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.
"Race," Writing, and Difference
"Race," Writing, and Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Race," Writing, and Difference write by Henry Louis Gates. This book was released on 1986. "Race," Writing, and Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse. Now, fifteen years after their first publication, these essays have managed to escape the cliches associated with the race-class-gender trinity of '80s criticism, and remain a provocative overview of the complex interplay between race, writing, and difference.
Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing and Difference write by Jacques Derrida. This book was released on 1978. Writing and Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Writing a Book That Makes a Difference
Writing a Book That Makes a Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing a Book That Makes a Difference write by Philip Gerard. This book was released on 2000-03. Writing a Book That Makes a Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philip Gerard analyses books that make a difference, fiction and non-fiction, classic and contemporary, and identifies the elusive ingredients that work together to produce a book that changes minds and lives.
Dissemination
Dissemination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissemination write by Jacques Derrida. This book was released on 2021-01-28. Dissemination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interpretations of Plato, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Philippe Sollers’ writings in three essays: “Plato’s Pharmacy,” “The Double Session,” and “Dissemination.” “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 strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida 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, The New Statesman
