Derrida and Autobiography
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Part of Literature, Culture, Theory
- Author: Robert Smith, University of Oxford
- Date Published: June 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521465816
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The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.
Read more- Brings insight into a new area of Derrida's work, including some of the most difficult (therefore neglected), and the most recent, texts
- Reinvents autobiographical theories and contextualises the work of past and present thinkers
- Important addition to popular CUP series Literature, Culture, Theory
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- Date Published: June 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521465816
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 141 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.28kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Book of Esther:
1. Incipit
2. Pure reason, absolute knowledge, pure change
3. Suffering:
4. His life story
Part II. Clarifying Autobiography:
5. Worstward ho: some recent theories
6. Labyrinths
Part III. The Book of Zoë:
7. auto
8. bio
9. graphy.
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