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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review"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
Named one of ArtForum's Best Books of 2007!"Psyche 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."—ArtForum"A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning, and a welcome addition to philosophy shelves and libraries."—
Midwest Book Review"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,
Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work." —Michael Naas, DePaul University
"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,
Psyche 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
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Editors' Foreword iii Author's Preface iii @toc2:1 Psyche: Invention of the Other 0 2 The Retrait of Metaphor 00 3 What Remains by Force of Music 00 4 To Illustrate, He Said 000 5 Envoi 000 6 Me--Psychoanalysis 000 7 At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am 000 8 Des tours de Babel 000 9 Telepathy 000 10 Ex abrupto 000 11 The Deaths of Roland Barthes 000 12 An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter" 000 13 Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world" 000 14 My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies 000 15 Racism's Last Word 000 16 No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives 000 @toc4:Notes 000
