Dissemination

Jacques Derrida

ISBN 10: 0226143341 / ISBN 13: 9780226143347

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1983

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Inhaltsangabe:

"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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Barbara Johnson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dissemination
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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