DERRIDA - Softcover

Peeters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 950557956X ISBN 13: 9789505579563

Publisher: FONDO CULTURA ECONOMICA, 2000

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

Review

′′Peeters has ransacked the voluminous Derrida archives and interviewed scores of his friends and colleagues. The result is a marvellously compelling account, lucidly translated by Andrew Brown. The man who emerges from this portrait is an agonised soul with sudden outbreaks of gaiety, an astonishingly original thinker with more than a dash of vanity who nevertheless made himself fully available to the humblest student.′′
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian

′Exhaustive and exhilarating.′
The Scotsman

′′A real tour de force. Assimilating a vast amount of material Derrida s own voluminous publications, unpublished documents and correspondence, and conversations with a host of acquaintances Ð Benoit Peeters has produced a compelling narrative that sheds light on all aspects of Derrida s remarkable career.′′
Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

′If you′ve ever given up on Derrida, this portrait of him as a lovable, thin–skinned and narcissistic outsider in France who shot to fame in the United States should make you reconsider.′
New Statesman

′In his impressive, massive biography... Benoit Peeters, a former student of Derrida s, tells a captivating tale of the enfant terrible outsider.′
Wichita Eagle

 

About the Author

Benoît Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. Following a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he went on to study for his Masters at the École Pratique des Hautes Études under the direction of Roland Barthes. He has since published over forty works on a wide variety of subjects and has written essays and biographies on Hergé, Alfred Hitchcock, and Paul Valéry.

Edition details

• Publisher: FONDO CULTURA ECONOMICA
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 950557956X
• ISBN 13: 9789505579563
• Binding: Paperback