Derrida : writing events / Simon Morgan Wortham.

Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singula...

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Main Author: Wortham, Simon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Series:Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Summary:Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories of Derrida''s work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (145 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-142) and index.
ISBN:9781441100122
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9781282870758
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Language:English.
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