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  • Thinking Out of Sight

    Writings on the Arts of the Visible

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida's most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks.The book is divided into three sections. The first ... Read more

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  • Dissemination

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Barbara Johnson ...
    Interpretations of Plato, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Philippe Sollers' writings in three essays: "Plato's Pharmacy," "The Double Session," and "Dissemination.""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. ... Read more

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  • For Strasbourg

    Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving ... Read more

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  • The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting ... Read more

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  • The Animal That Therefore I Am

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The translated, complete text of Derrida's 1997 ten-hour address, "The Autobiographical Animal," focusing on the industrialized treatment of animals.The Animal That Therefore I Am is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of ... Read more

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  • Specters of Marx

    The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Peggy Kamuf ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Published shortly after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet regime, Specters of Marx is one of Derrida's most interesting and prophetic books. Whilst many in the West heralded the triumph of liberal democracy and “the end of history”, Derrida takes several steps back to argue that whilst Communism may have disappeared in much of the world, the questions posed ... Read more

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  • Of Grammatology

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world.Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Life Death

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas ...
    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback.One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a multi-disciplinary analysis of a ... Read more

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  • To Think Is to Say No

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas ...
    To Think Is to Say No presents, for the first time in English, a remarkable early lecture course delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Sorbonne during the 1960–1961 academic year. Composed of four sessions and drawn from Derrida’s handwritten manuscripts, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the development of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.Taking its title from ... Read more

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  • The Post Card

    From Socrates to Freud and Beyond

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Alan Bass ...
    17 November 1979You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably.What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you ... Read more

    $57.19 CAD

  • The Truth in Painting

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Ian McLeod ...
    "The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Given Time II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf ...
    The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida’s seminar on the gift and time.In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second installment (though expected) was not completed in his lifetime. Given Time II completes the seminar with eight sessions that showcase Derrida’s most advanced work on the problematic of the gift in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD