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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.
Trade Review"A significant new scholarly resource, the interviews add up to a collective diagetical gloss on Derrida's major texts. The volume will be indispensable to any student and scholar of literature for whom deconstruction is important, whether as an inspiration and model or as a
bête noire." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY * Buffalo *
"Here Derrida himself provides a guide and commentary to his work. . . . This collection is particularly welcome because Derrida's work in the past 20 years has taken off in a variety of new directions that have often left critics puzzled." --
ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Upside-down writing Elizabeth Weber 1. Between Brackets. 2. Ja, or the faux-bond. 3. 'The Almost Nothing of the Unpresentable' 4. Choreographies 5. Of a certain college international de philosophie still to come 6. Unsealing ('the new old language') 7. 'Dialanguages' 8. Voice Part II. 9. Language (Le Monde on the telephone) 10. Heidegger, the philosopher's hell 11. Comment donner raison? 'How to concede, with reasons?' 12. 'There is no one narcissism' (Autobiographies) 13. Is there a philosophical language? 14. The rhetoric of drugs 15. 'Eating well', or the calculation of the subject 16. Che cos'è la poesia? 17. Istrice 2: Ick bunn all hier. 18. Once again from the top: of the right to philosophy 19. 'A 'madness' must watch over thinking' 20. Counter-signatures 21. Passages from traumatism to promise 22. Two 'Affairs' 23. Honoris Causa: 'This is also extremely funny' 24. The work of intellectuals and the press (The bad example: how the New York Review of Books and company do business).
