Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Cultural Memory in the Present) - Hardcover

Naas, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804744211 ISBN 13: 9780804744218

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition.

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Review:

"This is an essential purchase for academic collections and will be of interest to general readers educated in 20th century Continental philosophy."--Library Journal

" . . . [A]n important contribution to the efforts of a new generation to take on Derrida and to set in motion the legacy that is also the future of deconstruction."--CLIO

"This truly original and insightful second book by Naas, following Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy, is exemplary not only because of the caliber of the writing and the subtlety of the interpretations but also because it demonstrates engagements with both the philosophical and literary traditions."--Research in Phenomenology

About the Author:

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy and editor of The Work of Mourning, a collection of essays by Derrida. He has also been a co-translator of four of Derrida's books, including Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford, 1999) and Resistances of Psychoanalysis (Stanford, 1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0804744211
• ISBN 13: 9780804744218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248