The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation - Softcover

Derrida, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803265751 ISBN 13: 9780803265752

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1988

Synopsis

"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.

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'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 assumptions about ourselves and our world.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803265751
• ISBN 13: 9780803265752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: McDonald Christie