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The paperback edition of a work first published in 1981, this book is intended for students of literary criticism, linguistics and philosophy. It provides Derrida's most central and seminal works: "La Pharmacie de Platon", "La Double Seance" and "La Dessemination". The essays provide original readings of Mallarme and present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse.
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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
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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 be the literature of truth.
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- PublisherContinuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0485300052
- ISBN 13 9780485300055
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages366
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