{"product_id":"psyche-9780804747981","title":"Psyche","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA twenty-eight essay collection that is published in two volumes. This work includes translations of seminal essays such as \"Psyche: Invention of the Other,\" \"The Retrait of Metaphor,\" \"At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am,\" \"Tours de Babel\" and \"Racism's Last Word\"; as well as three essays that appear in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Derrida's writing is never easy, but the 16 pieces gathered here are exceptionally lucid and clearly translated, and they offer a useful, engaging entrée to Derrida's work for advanced undergraduates and all graduate philosophy students.\"— CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eArtForum\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2007!\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePsyche\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging introduction to Derrida's engagement with the ethicopolitical implications of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Here, his meditations on mourning, specularity, memory, performativity, and much else are framed in what he describes as the 'quasi-epistolary situation' of the collected essays.\"—\u003ci\u003eArtForum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning, and a welcome addition to philosophy shelves and libraries.\"—\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, \u003ci\u003ePsyche\u003c\/i\u003e is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work.\" —Michael Naas, DePaul University\u003cbr\u003e\"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, \u003ci\u003ePsyche\u003c\/i\u003e is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought.\" —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e@fmct:Contents  @toc4:Acknowledgments\tiii  Editors' Foreword\tiii  Author's Preface\tiii  @toc2:1\tPsyche: Invention of the Other\t0  2\tThe Retrait of Metaphor\t00  3\tWhat Remains by Force of Music\t00  4\tTo Illustrate, He Said\t000  5\tEnvoi\t000  6\tMe--Psychoanalysis\t000  7\tAt This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am\t000  8\tDes tours de Babel\t000  9\tTelepathy\t000  10\tEx abrupto\t000  11\tThe Deaths of Roland Barthes\t000  12\tAn Idea of Flaubert: \"Plato's Letter\"\t000  13\tGeopsychoanalysis, \"and the rest of the world\"\t000  14\tMy Chances\/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies\t000  15\tRacism's Last Word\t000  16\tNo Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives\t000  @toc4:Notes\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405555179863,"sku":"9780804747981","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804747981.jpg?v=1730492815","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/psyche-9780804747981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}