The Derrida Reader
eBook - PDF

The Derrida Reader

Writing Performances

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Derrida Reader

Writing Performances

About this book

The collection focuses on a number of texts which address French writers and writers in French, such as Valéry, Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, while also addressing other concerns prominent throughout Derrida's career as a writer, such as Plato, Freud and Marx.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Justifying the Unjustifiable: A Supplementary Introduction, of sorts
  5. 1. Scribble (writing-power)
  6. 2. The Battle of Proper Names [from Of Grammatology]
  7. 3. The Originary Metaphor [from Of Grammatology]
  8. 4. The Retrait of Metaphor
  9. 5. The Time before First [from Dissemination]
  10. 6. From Specters of Marx
  11. 7. From Memoirs of the Blind
  12. 8. Logic of the Living Feminine [from Otobiographies]
  13. 9. Qual Quelle: Valéry's Sources [from Writing and Difference]
  14. 10. Khōra
  15. 11. Economimesis
  16. Bibliography

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