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A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds
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This is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.
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One of the greatest thinkers of the last century...........2005-10-03
Such a title is both purple and cliched and only appropriate to Derrida if heard as a kind of true joke. Derrida is surrounded by his myths as the cartoon character "Pig Pen" is by a cloud of dust. This is the first barrier to reading him since he always appears characterized in advance by his enemies. The next barrier is that he writes "against" those standards of logic and fact that are everywhere taken thoughtlessly for granted: this means his stance is "irrational." Such a perspective is, once again, that of his antagonists or those who are simply ignorant and so think with the herd. Derrida is, in fact, hyper-rational or post-rational: he has thought about and studied the history of thinking to the degree that its problems are clear to him. Most of us live in banal rationality as a goldfish in a bowl: the person is outside is both distorted and by definition, crazy. A third problem is that Derrida wishes to stimulate, not clarify: his mission is not to bring the novice from the first questions of philosophy to its ends nor should we expect this any more than we hope that a president is instructing children on 9-11. Finally, Derrida's conviction in the contingent nature of normal logic means that his form of composition, not just his ideas, is non-normative. He is best read as a philosophical poet with all the word play, punning, and allusion that marks that genre. In short, he is very hard and the selections here are brief and so suffer from the disorientation brought by displacement. Still, if you stay, you will grow.
probes from concepts on high as a bird in flight looking.......2001-01-13
by far this is the most accessible introduction tothe forbidden threshold of Derrida's thought. Peggy Kamuf mounts the fairly limitless edifice of his work through seasoned selected excerpts,If you are fascinated forever by the conceptual,the literary,or analytic,the performative or philosphic focus,Derrida's work is like an alive moment that touches each in between elements of text,of ideas.All sometimes in simultanaeity or in context to each.If you come to Derrida it must from some place(time,geographic/cultural)some discipline,and sadly enough that acts to skew and blind,to opaque-ify Derrida's virtuoso,contextual,cross-referencing,overdetermined,overanalyzed modes of thought. But if you have scoured literature(Blanchot,Ponge,Jabes) not for its own sake,or thought,looked at ideas(Plato) (Heidegger) retrogressively yet with a committment to subversion(Genet) (Marx) of the Western canon,Derrida work serves these realms quite admirably.I humbly request you gander and pass time at this collection, peak between the blinds(Kamuf's metaphor)before you proceed directly to an original work. Derrida's work has that element of throwing forward a growth of petrified thought finding new conceptual life in the present, or not so distant past. So wherever you begin in Derrida it is like a timeless warp to be repeated some place,some time to come or had come,or had been,or will not ever be.
good ideas, tedious excursion.......2000-05-17
It's unfortunate that Derrida has carried on the Western philosophical tradition of unnecessarily turgid, convoluted, and just plain bad writing inaugurated by the inflated Hegel and exemplified by Sartre and a host of other heady hacks. On the plus side, this is a solid collection of Derrida's most important pieces and enumerates some of his best ideas: difference, logocentrism, the trace, etc. Not for beginners, but if you're determined to read an important thinker, this may be required reading...some of it anyhow.
One of the best anthologies I have read during recent years........1998-07-08
Peggy Kamuf offers a well organized anthology of Derrida's varied contributions.
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Changed my life.......2002-10-17
This is one of my most cherished volumes of critical theory. Any self-respecting lit student should own this tome, and read it carefully. Many useful pieces for different scenarios.
A deep look into language, religion and..........2000-09-12
...abjection (If you also read 'Powers of Horror' by Kristeva) Quite comprehensive altough it would be hard to make a choice in the work of Kristeva. Kristeva's work focuses heavily on semiotics and women's role in politics and religion. Many of the theories will stir the soul, especially 'Stabat Mater' if you grew up forced into any european or western dogma. 'Women's Time' is a good possible evaluation of women and politics. Freud gets thrown into this in a very different manner than one expects, which leaves us to wonder, is Kristeva supporting the old 'Dr.' or not?
Celebrating Language and Thought.......2000-05-27
The Kristeva Reader is a good, even great, introduction to the work of Julia Kristeva. Some of Kristeva's most important works are brilliantly exerpted in readable prose by Toril Moi. Lovers of linguistics, rhetoric, literary theory, and psychology will find Kristeva's work compelling. One interesting aspect of the text is that it offers the reader a glimpse into the creative process. In an early essay, "Word, Dialogue, and Novel," Kristeva responds to the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin. Her later essay, "Revolution in Poetic Language," shows the evolution of Kristeva's language theory. Unfortunately, in order to make Kristeva accessible, Moi had to make some difficult choices in her editing. A serious scholar will undoubtedly find herself looking for the complete essays in another text.
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Only Book on Deconstruction That Has Made Sense to Me.......2004-10-11
I think deconstruction is important but have difficulty understanding it. This book is the only lucid explanation I've seen of it's basic principles.
very helpful.......2002-02-11
If you are beginning to read derrida, this book will be very helpful. Now if they only made one for Judith Butler! (Skip the Foucault, his theories are not that complex.)
Accessible. Important. Powerful knowledge for any human........2002-01-02
This book is concerned with making accessible the often inaccessible Derrida. Derrida's philosophy will help you develop a healthy sensibility and cynicism for 'knowledge' and 'representation.'
Do not be fooled by the 'for beginners' title; it is not simply an introduction, it is a hands-on intepretation of several his 'major' works. The book has any value for anyone interested in learning about the world in which we live.
Accessible. Important. Powerful knowledge for any human........2002-01-02
This book is concerned with making accessible the often inaccessible Derrida. Derrida's philosophy will help you develop a healthy sensibility and cynicism for 'knowledge' and 'representation.'
Do not be fooled by the 'for beginners' title; it is not simply an introduction, it is a hands-on intepretation of several his 'major' works. The book has any value for anyone interested in learning about the world in which we live.
If your new to Derrida, here is your introduction........2000-11-03
Derrida is my favorite philosopher. I don't think that his 'Deconstruction' is holistic necessarily but the gist of it explains the inherent problems of doing philosophy better then anything else I've read.
Unlike the greats of Science who simplify complex ideas (i.e..Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman), the guru's of philosophy take fairly straight-forward ideas and shroud them with such mysterious sounding proprietary language that their work becomes nearly impossible to decipher. Derrida is no exception. This is a shame because his underlying message is brilliant...and really not not all that abstract.
So until philosophers realize that less words does not directly translate to less intelligence, we should be very glad to have commentators like Jim Powell around.
"Derrida For Beginners" concentrates on developing the key concept of "differance" and defining the necessary Derridian terminology used to communicate its meaning. The book clearly defines, "binary opposites", "texts", "logocentricism" etc.. and has plenty of diagram's to help you get the idea. While I can't say the artwork did much for me, the cartoon setting does force the message to be carried accross succinctly...no babling. The first book I read after failing miserably to tackle "Of Grammatology" was "Derrida" by Christopher Norris. While his was an excellent introduction..I will say that after I read "Derrida for Beginners" I went back and read most of Norris' book again and got a lot more out of it. Try this: read "Derrida for Beginners" as many times as needed until you have all the words in bold print at your fingertips..then, read Norris' book "Derrida". With this few hours of investment, do some online searches and read some of the commentaries and criticism of Derrida. You will be surprised at how badly he is misunderstood by so many who have studied him a lot more then you, and should feel good about your knowledge in comparisom. Of course you then need to get humble again so start reading "Of Grammatology". :)
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The readings are organized into sections on philosophy, politics, art, and literature. Several have never before been translated into English. Detailed introductions to each section by two leading Lyotard scholars explain the philosopher's key ideas and provide crucial social, political, aesthetic, and philosophical context. As a sourcebook and guide, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on Lyotard. It is indispensable to students and scholars in philosophy, literature, the arts, and politics.
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The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work; the assembled contributions - on law, literature, ethics, history, gender, politics and psychoanalysis, among others - constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work within the field of humanities, present and future. The volume is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's own address on 'the future of the humanities'. In addition to its pedagogic interest, this collection of essays attempts to respond to the question: what might be the relation of Derrida, or 'deconstruction' to the future of the humanities? The volume presents the most sustained examples yet of what deconstruction is in its current phase - as well as what its possible future may be.
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Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender studies, trauma studies, and critical legal studies. Shoshana Felman has not only influenced these fields: her work has opened channels of communication between them. In all of her work Felman charts a way for literary critics to address the ways in which texts have real effects in the world and how our quest for meaning is transformed in the encounter with the texts that hold such a promise.
The present collection gathers the most exemplary and influential essays from Felman's oeuvre, including articles previously untranslated into English. The Claims of Literature also includes short responses to Felman's work by leading contemporary theorists, including Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, Cathy Caruth, Claude Lanzmann, Winfried Menninghaus, and Austin Sarat.
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A Brilliant, Much-Needed Collection.......2007-07-30
The work of Shoshana Felman, now Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French at Emory University and formerly Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale, has been at the center of some of the most exciting developments in the humanities over the course of the past thirty-plus years. Occupying an unprecedentedly influential position at the intersection of the fields of literary criticism, philosophy (in both its `Continental' and -- as her celebrated engagement with J.L. Austin's theory of Speech Acts in `The Scandal of the Speaking Body' demonstrated -- Analytic flavors), psychoanalysis, feminist thought, and, most recently, theories of legal procedure, history, and trauma, Shoshana Felman has delivered her own unique and revolutionary insights on pressing questions that should interest not only fellow academics and their students, but also readers looking to understand how `theory', done with a finesse only she can manage, can shed light on the nature of texts, psyches, history, and our world at large. Now, for the first time, `The Claims of Literature' makes available to a broad audience access to the full scope of Felman's thought, and showcases the development of her remarkable project from her early studies in France to her writings in the New Haven of the Yale School and beyond.
`The Claims of Literature', edited by Emily Sun, Eyal Peretz, and Ulrich Baer, boasts a comprehensive selection of Felman's writings. Encompassing over thirty years of writing, including until-now-unavailable-in-English material, `The Claims of Literature', covers all the bases and more besides. `Claims' includes not only hefty selections from the controversial and path-breaking `The Scandal of the Speaking Body' (a brilliant, playful critique of J.L. Austin drawing on the figure of Don Juan the seducer) and her rigorous reflections on psychoanalytic theory proper (`Beyond Oedipus: The Specimen Text of Psychoanalysis'), but also presents gems like the early `You Were Right to Leave, Arthur Rimbaud' and `Rimbaud with Mallarme: Modernity, Poetry, and Translation' (translated by none other than Barbara Johnson) and a brief-yet-nuanced reading of Derrida and Foucault's respective writings on madness and its place in philosophy (can there be a philosophy of madness, or does madness itself imbricate the project of philosophy?, wonders Felman). `Claims' offers a representative catalogue of the readings of masterpieces of French and other literatures that first made Felman famous, and which still stand as definitive - her readings of Balzac, Flaubert, and James are all here. Sun, Peretz, and Baer have also worked to include well-chosen moments in Dr. Felman's work which will prove of particular interest to those interested in Jewish/Holocaust studies, feminism, and more: Felman's seminal reading of Claude Lanzmann's film `Shoah' is reproduced in its entirety, and her critique of Juliet Mitchell's feminist reading of Freud is here as well. The most recent direction Felman's thought - on the nature of trauma, and on the `crisis of witnessing' that historical events provoke, particularly when quickened through the testimony at trials which the law demands - is likewise presented here in full-force. Indeed, Felman's recent work on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, `A Ghost in the House of Justice', drawing in equal parts on the testimony of the Holocaust-survivor and author K-Zetnik and on the very different reportage of Hannah Arendt, takes up a place of emphasis in `Claims', and is a work which, as commentator Austin Sarat notes, also offers much food-for-thought for students, practitioners, and theorists of legal studies and the law.
Felman's voice, and those of the texts, authors, and witnesses she examines are not the only ones heard in `Claims': the volume is replete with the commentary, introductions, and reflections of Felman's peers, all of whom boast impressive names in their own rights. In addition to Sun-Peretz-Baer's lucid introduction, Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva, and Juliet Mitchell, some of whom write commissioned for this volume, all offer responses to Felman' thought, and testify to the unique influence she and her work have had on the development of their own work. These essays, which fuse reflection on Felman's claims with serious critical dialogue, offer the reader an effective representation of the breadth of Felman's influence.
Pedagogy is at the heart of Shoshana Felman's enterprise, and `The Claims of Literature' makes this clear through more than simply showcasing her excellent written style (which is itself nothing to trifle with - some essays, particularly the one on Flaubert, are positively moving). Indeed, `Claims' closes with two, brand-new transcripts of classes given by Felman - one, her last at Yale, and the other, her first at Emory - which make abundantly clear the depth of her commitment to generating insight in others (students as well as readers) and her uniquely dialogical methodology. Moving from the details of Socrates' death to the respective `excommunications' of Spinoza and Lacan (for the latter of whom, I would argue, Felman is inarguably among the best, if not the best, readers alive today), these lecture transcripts s offer tantalizing insight into Felman's classroom methodology, and offer clues as to the new directions her work may take in the future.
`The Claims of Literature' is a volume that, once read, by necessity alters any readings that follow it. As this volume so effectively makes clear, Felman's oeuvre represents far more than a collection of brilliant readings of individual texts - it is a sustained and elegant ethics of inquiry, a lifetime's fidelity to approaching fundamental questions with a focus both rigorous and graceful, critical yet sensitive, high-stakes yet deeply dignified. "The Claims of Literature" is, simply put, a lesson in reading, and anyone who feels drawn by the claims literature makes on us will be deeply enriched by it.
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Philosophers 'do' 'it', literary critics 'do' 'it', even architects, poets, painters 'do' 'it'. It can involve the concepts of capital, politics, and justice. So what, after all, is deconstruction? Deconstruction: A Reader makes an answer to this question available in the only way possible - by offering a selection of breathtaking range and depth of essential texts. With more than sixty selections by fifty contributors, including nine pieces by Jacques Derrida, this is the ultimate anthology of deconstructive reading, demonstrating that deconstruction is vivid, surprising, varied, and true to the text.
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Deconstruction Revealed.......2003-05-05
Martin McQuillan has complied groups of related essays that illuminate the often dark and mysterious topic of deconstruction. While not for the faint of heart, Deconstruction: A Reader begins with an introduction by McQuillan which is one of the best overviews of deconstuction around. Easy to read and simple to follow, McQuillan's intro leads the reader through labrynthine complexities while defining all the tricky terms as they appear. Continual references to essays within the book also make it easy to find the essay that most interests you. With the deconstructive project deciphered, a wealth of perspective knowledge is contained in the 50+ essays. Organized by field of interest -- philosophy, literature, culture, etc.. -- the effects of deconstruction can easily be examined within each section. I particularly enjoy the first section which contains essays by Freud, Marx, Heidegger and more. These snipits from larger works enlighten the reader of deconstruction's precursors -- how can you know where you are going if you don't know where you can from? The remaining sections are brilliantly framed by opening and closing remarks from the daddy of deconstruction: Derrida. While many of the essays are deeply intellectual and profound, many are accessible with the information presented in the intro, but after the easier essays are understood and internalized, the more difficult ones become available.
Overall, this reader is a great overview of the deconstructive project and it's implications. For beginners, the intro cannot be raved about enough. It is helpful in the extreme. For more advanced deconstruction theorists, the essays provide a deconstructive perspective on many issues and in many ways. For anybody that writes on or is interested in the subject, I highly recommend this "handbook."
What is deconstruction?.......2001-09-08
Deconstruction has been a hot topic for many years, and everyone has been creating a buzz around 'it.' But what exactly is deconstruction? Well it's not a literary theor or a practice. It is an all encompassing word that can be replaced by any number of words that have an unequal but similar meaning: supplementarity, allegory, etc. This book provides a good introduction to the many facets of Deconstruction that allows us to think of this term and all that it encompasses. The introduction is especially good and gives a person a quick overview of the work if you know nothing about it. In addition, the essays in the book are not readily understandable at first read but is a great work to slowly meander through the paragraphs and deconstruct any meaning that you can for yourself. Enjoy!
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In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to that book-and a new introduction that situates feminist animal care theory within feminist theory and the larger debate over animal rights. Contributors critique theorists' reliance on natural rights doctrine and utilitarianism, which, they suggest, have a masculine bias. They argue for ethical attentiveness and sympathy in our relationships with animals and propose a link between the continuing subjugation of women and the human domination of nature. Beginning with the earliest articulation of the idea in the mid-1980s and continuing to the theory's most recent revisions, this volume presents the most complete portrait of the evolution of the feminist-care tradition., reviewing a previous edition or volume
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