Deconstruction in a Nutshell by Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo - 9780823290284

Deconstruction in a NutshellA Conversation with Jacques Derrida, with a New Introduction\nAuthor(s): Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823290284, 978-0823290284\nSynopsis\nThis volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language.\n Responding to questions put to him at a roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, community, and the messianic. Derrida refutes the charges of relativism that are often leveled at deconstruction by its critics and sets forth .