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Dissemination (Paperback)
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Dissemination (Paperback)
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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 strives--against
the grain of language--to offer a sober revelation of truth.
Literature--on the other hand--flaunts its own meretriciousness,
abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In
Dissemination--more than any previous work--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 the literature of truth.--Peter Dews, New Statesman
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