Veils by Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida (Paperback, 2002)

Name: Veils by Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida (Paperback, 2002)
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

VeilsAuthor(s): Hlne Cixous, Jacques Derrida\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804737951, 978-0804737951\nSynopsis\nSomething of a historical event, this book combines loosely \""autobiographical\"" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. \""Savoir,\"" by Hlne Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). Jacques Derrida's \""A Silkworm of One's Own\"" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifsincluding his varied responses to \""Savoir.\"" The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body.\n\.