Jacques Derrida - 9780415021975

Taylor & Francis

This superb study on the question of language will make illuminating reading for anyone studying or engaged with Derrida's philosophy. > \nIn Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker. Looking closely at the language and the construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, Hobson suggests the way he writes, indeed the fact he writes in another language, affects how he can be understood by English speakers.\nThis superb study on the question of language will make illuminating reading for anyone studying or engaged with Derrida's philosophy. > Introduction; Chapter 1 Histories and Transcendentals; Chapter 2 Replications; Chapter 3 Strange Attractors; Chapter 4 Negatives and Steps; Chapter 5 Contacts; > \n'Of great interest to anyone who wishes to engage at a serious level with Derrida's thought.' - Times Literary Supplement\n\n'A sophisticated analysis of the mode of Derrida's argu.