Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
Overview"""The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives--against the grain of language--to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature--on the other hand--flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination--more than any previous work--Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth.""--Peter Dews, New Statesman" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jacques Derrida , Barbara JohnsonPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780226503479ISBN 10: 022650347 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 01 September 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBarbara Johnson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
