A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds

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Columbia University Press, 1991 - Literary Criticism - 625 pages
PrefaceIntroduction: Reading Between the Blinds Part One: Difference at the Origin1. From Speech and Phenomena2. From Of Grammatology3. From "Difference"4. "Signature Event Context"5. From "Plato's Pharmacy" Part Two: Beside Philosophy--"Literature"6. "Tympan"7. From "The Double Session"8. From "Psyche: Inventions of the Other"9. "Che cos'e la poesia?" Part Three: More than One Language10. From "Des Tours de Babel"11. From "Living on: Border Lines"12. "Letter to a Japanese Friend"13. From "Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing" Part Four: Sexual Difference in Philosophy14. From Glas15. From Spurs: Nietsche's Styles16." Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference"17. From "At this Very Moment in This Work Here I Am"18. From Choreographies" Part Five: Tele-Types (Yes, Yes)19. From "Le Facteur de la verite"20. From "Envois"21. From "To Speculate--on 'Freud'"22. From "ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce" Bibliography of Works in Jacques DerridaSelected Works on Jacques Derrida and DeconstructionIndex of Works by Jacques DerridaIndex.
 

Contents

Differance at the Origin
3
From Speech and Phenomena
6
From Of Grammatology
31
From Différance
59
Signature Event Context
80
From Platos Pharmacy
112
Beside PhilosophyLiterature
143
Tympan
146
Letter to a Japanese Friend
269
From Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing
277
Sexual Difference in Philosophy
313
Nietzsches Styles
353
Sexual Difference Ontological Difference
378
From At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am
403
TeleTypes Yes Yes 459
469
From Envois
484

From The Double Session
169
Inventions of the Other
200
Che cosè la poesia?
221
More Than One Language
241
From Des Tours de Babel
243
Border Lines
254
From To Speculateon Freud
516
Hear Say Yes in Joyce
569
Bibliography of Works by Jacques Derrida
601
Index of Works by Jacques Derrida
617
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Jacques Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria on July 15, 1930. He graduated from the École Normal Supérieure in 1956. He taught philosophy and logic at both the University of Paris and the École Normal Supérieure for around 30 years. His works of philosophy and linguistics form the basis of the school of criticism known as deconstruction. This theory states that language is an inadequate method to give an unambiguous definition of a work, as the meaning of text can differ depending on reader, time, and context. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books on various aspects of deconstruction including Of Grammatology, Glas, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, and Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 9, 2004 at the age of 74.

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