Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters) - Softcover

Norris, Christopher

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9780006860570: Derrida (Fontana Modern Masters)

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ISBN 10: 0006860575 ISBN 13: 9780006860570

Publisher: Fontana Press, 1987

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271 pp. Collection Fontana Modern Masters . Couverture insol�e. Tranche et bords de pages jaunis.

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Excellent...Norris displays a command of philosophy from Kant to the present...[and is] a major contemporary interpreter of deconstruction...Norris has succeeded admirably in presenting a careful, reliable, and very readable general introduction to the thought of Derrida. Choice Norris organizes his book around Derrida's writings on Plato, Hegel, Saussure, Rousseau, Kant, Austin, Freud, and Foucault. He shows how Derrida reads the philosophers not as voices in historical time but as writers whose texts interact both in their own historical time and in the vertical time frame of reason and the dictionary...Norris has done what not even Derrida has been able to do very well; explain Derrida. -- Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor Derrida should continue to be read. And whether one initially classifies Derrida's work as 'literature' or as 'philosophy' is less important than that he be appreciated as the sort of writer whose originality forces us to throw away old taxonomies and come up with new ones. Norris' thoughtful book will help people appreciate that originality. -- Richard Rorty New Leader

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Discusses Derrida's writings on Plato, Kant, Hegel, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Freud.

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