Reader - Hardcover

Derrida, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745009913 ISBN 13: 9780745009919

Publisher: Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991

Synopsis

This reader brings together selected (complete or self-contained) texts which are not generally anthologised, particularly those which deal with specifically literary writers and literary topics. The collection focuses on a number of texts which address French writers and writers in French, such as Valery, Rousseau, Levi-Strauss, Baudelaire, Mallarme, while also addressing other concerns prominent throughout Derrida's career as a writer, such as Plato, Freud and Marx.

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Review

This is a good anthology and will serve well the teacher of deconstruction This is a good anthology and will serve well the teacher of deconstruction

About the Author

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, with the Department of English and Drama, at Loughborough University. He has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, and theoretical approaches to literature. His most recent books are Thomas Hardy and Literature, in Theory. He is currently working on The Derrida Wordbook (EUP) and a study of the relation between philosophy and poetry in the nineteenth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745009913
• ISBN 13: 9780745009919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Kamuf Peggy