Jacques Derrida

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Gli spettri di Marx

"One of the major works in the development of contemporary criticism and philosophy." -- J. Hillis Miller, Yale University Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Spivak's translation, which captures the richness and complexity of the original. This corrected edition adds a new index of the critics and philosophers cited in the text and makes one of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works even more accessible and usable.

Of Grammatology

In einer Lektüre Freud'scher Texte, die sich um den Begriff der »Grausamkeit« ranken, erkundet Derrida mögliche Antworten auf die Frage, worin die Krise der Psychoanalyse heute besteht. Ausgehend von der These, dass die Psychoanalyse der Name dessen sein könnte, was sich ohne jegliches Alibi dem Eigensten der psychischen Grausamkeit zuwendet, versucht Derrida die Möglichkeit zu denken, wie jenseits der Logik des Todestriebes Recht, Politik und vielleicht sogar eine Ethik begründet werden könnten, die der psychoanalytischen Revolution wie auch den Ereignissen Rechnung tragen, die einen grausamen Wandel der Grausamkeit darstellen – den technischen, wissenschaftlichen, juridischen, ökonomischen, ethischen und politischen Veränderungen unserer Zeit.

Das Unmögliche jenseits einer souveränen Grausamkeit

Seelenstände der Psychoanalyse

Mustapha Chérif

der Islam und der Westen

Begegnung mit Jacques Derrida

Dietmar J. Wetzel

Ein Buch über den Begründer der Dekonstruktion und der neumodischen Bindestrich-Wörter, der am liebsten Fußballer geworden wäre. Der Einfluss seines Denkens erstreckt sich weit über das Feld der Philosophie hinaus: auf Literaturtheorien, Kulturwissenschaften, Psychoanalyse und soziale Bewegungen nach dem "Ende der großen Erzählungen". Das Werk des französischen Intellektuellen steht für eine unbedingte Verantwortung für den anderen und ein rückhaltloses Vertrauen auf ein Zu-Kommendes der Demokratie. Derridas Bedeutung für unser politisches Denken begründet sich nicht zuletzt auf seinem großen Interesse für aktuelle politische Themen: sein Engagement gegen eine ökonomisch verkürzte Globalisierung, sein Einsatz gegen die Apartheid, seine Analysen zum 11. September und zum 'alten Europa'. Am 15.7.1930 wäre Jacques Derrida 75 geworden. Mit Originaltexten, Interview, Biografie, Fotos

Fragen für Jacques Derrida

"Judentümer"

Übersetzungspolitik zwischen den Kulturen

Die Sprache der Anderen

("jähe syntaktische Sprünge")

Der Meineid, vielleicht

Delle arti – di ciò si tratta in questo libro. Delle arti, appunto, al plurale. O anche della problematicità di un singolare – l’«arte» –, che si rifrange ogni volta in una molteplicità lontanissima dall’essere omogenea. Jacques Derrida non si è mai sottratto alla sottile quanto inevitabile ingiunzione che le «arti del visibile», ossia il disegno, la pittura e la fotografia, ma anche il cinema, la videoarte e il teatro, suscitano per il solo fatto di esistere. Ed è vero – come il lettore potrà constatare – che la decostruzione trova nelle arti un’occasione assai feconda di esplicitare, mettere alla prova e sperimentare la portata dei suoi concetti. Per quanto concerne il visibile, infatti, si tratta sempre, anche se in modalità differenti nelle arti e rispetto alla scrittura, della traccia, del tratto, di spettri, e dunque di un «vedere senza vedere niente». Derrida non avrà pensato che a questo non vedere, come rivelano i testi qui raccolti (saggi, interventi, conferenze, interviste, scritti per cataloghi d’arte), apparsi lungo l’arco di venticinque anni di attività e pratica di scrittura, successivi alla pubblicazione di La vérité en peinture (1978) fino al 2004.

Scritti sulle arti del visibile (1979-2004)

Pensare al non vedere

Introduzione a Husserl, L'origine della geometria

La diseminación

"Cómo no hablar?" y otros textos

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman. "Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. . . . . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts."—David Hoy, London Review of Books "Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."—David Farrell Krell, Research in Phenomenology "The analysis of Heidegger is brilliant, provocative, elusive."—Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review

Heidegger and the Question

Of Spirit

"In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weav es] a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to be the literature of truth." New StatesmanJacques Derrida (1930-) is Professor of Philosophy at Ecole Normale SupErieure, Paris. Regarded as the founding father of Deconstruction, his influence on contemporary thought has been enormous. His impact on philosophy and literary criticism was assured by the publication of Speech and Phenomena, Writing and Difference and Of Grammatology.First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse. This is a groundbreaking work on the relationship and interplay between language, literature and philosophy.Translated, with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Barbara Johnson>

La dissémination

""My death - is it possible?"" "That is the question asked, explored, and analyzed in Jacques Derrida's new book. "Is my death possible?" How is this question to be understood? How and by whom can it be asked, can it be quoted, can it be an appropriate question, and can it be asked in the appropriate moment, the moment of "my death"? One of the aporetic experiences touched upon in this seminal essay is the impossible, yet unavoidable experience that "my death" can never be subject to an experience that would be properly mine, that I can have and account for, yet that there is, at the same time, nothing closer to me and more properly mine than "my death."" "This book bears a special significance because in it Derrida focuses on an issue that has informed the whole of his work up to the present. For the last thirty years, Derrida has repeatedly, in various contexts and various ways, broached the question of aporia. Making it his central concern here Derrida stakes out a new frontier, at which the debate with his work must take place from now on: the debate about the aporia between singularity and generality, about the national, linguistic, and cultural specificity of experience and the trans-national, trans-cultural law that protects this specificity; the aporia of the necessity to continue working in the tradition of critique and of the idea of critique, yet the corresponding necessity to transcend it without compromising it; the apoetical obligation to host the foreigner and the alien and yet to respect him, her, or it as foreign." "The foreign or the foreigner has always been considered a figure of death, and death a figure of the foreign. How this figure has been treated in the analytic of death in Heidegger's Being and Time is explored by Derrida in an analytical tour de force that will not fail to set new standards for the discussion of Heidegger and for dealing with philosophical texts, with their limits and their aporias. The detailed discussion of the theoretical presuppositions of recent cultural histories of death (Aries, for example) and of psychological theorizations of death (including Freud's) broaden the scope of Derrida's investigation and indicate the impact of the aporia of "my death" for any possible theory."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dying--awaiting (one Another At) the "limits of Truth" (mourir--s'attendre Aux "limites de la Vérité")

Aporias

Geoffrey Bennington

Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own excerpts from his life and thought that, appearing at the bottom of each page, resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a dialogue and a contest, constitute a remarkably in-depth, critical introduction to one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century and, at the same time, demonstrate the illusions inherent in such a project. Bennington's account of Derrida, broader in scope than any previously done, leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet still widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar and altogether more mysterious themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. Seeking to escape this systematic rendering - in fact, to prove it impossible - Derrida interweaves Bennington's text with surprising and disruptive "periphrases": reflections on his mother's death agony, commentaries on St. Augustine's Confessions, memories of childhood, remarks on Judaism, and references to his collaborator's efforts. This extraordinary book offers, on the one hand, a clear and compelling account of one of the most difficult and important contemporary thinkers and, on the other, one of that thinker's strangest and most unexpected texts. Far from putting an end to the need to discuss Derrida, Bennington's text might have originally intended or pretended, this dual text opens new dimensions in the philosopher's thought and work and extends its challenge.

Derrida

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 Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—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.

Writing and Difference

Specters of Marx is a major new book from the renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It represents his first important statement on Marx and his definitive entry into social and political philosophy. "Specter" is the first noun one reads in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. But that's just the beginning. Once you start to notice them, there is no counting all the ghosts, spirits, specters and spooks that crowd Marx's text. If they are to count for something, however, one must question the spectropoetics that Marx allowed to invade his discourse. In Specters of Marx, Derrida undertakes this task within the context of a critique of the new dogmatism and "new world order" that have proclaimed the death of Marxism and of Marx.

Jacques Derrida

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