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Writing and Difference (Paperback)
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Writing and Difference (Paperback)
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First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of
Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become
a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at
work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The
book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes
and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of
deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the
traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of
modern thought--one of his main targets being the way in which
structuralism unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use
of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of
Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical
thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language,
finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion.
These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Levi-Strauss
have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and
difference--the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical
concept that does not exclude writing--for almost a generation of
students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Writing and
Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought
itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this
program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading,
and writing, --new ways based on the most complete and rigorous
understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all
disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent
introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French
thinkers--challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know
it.
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