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Derrida

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Description for Derrida Paperback. * The definitive biography of the philosopher Jacques Derrida(1930-2004). * In writing this biography, Benoit Peeters talked to over ahundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida. He is alsothe first person to make use of the huge personal archive built upby Derrida throughout his life and of his voluminouscorrespondence. Num Pages: 700 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; CFA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1020.

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world – a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system. We are plunged into the different worlds in which Derrida lived and worked: pre-independence Algeria, the microcosm of the École Normale Supérieure, the cluster of structuralist thinkers, and the turbulent events of 1968 and after. We meet the remarkable series of leading writers ... Read more

In writing this compelling and authoritative biography, Benoît Peeters talked to over a hundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida.  He is also the first person to make use of the huge personal archive built up by Derrida throughout his life and of his extensive correspondence.  Peeters’ book gives us a new and deeper understanding of the man who will perhaps be seen as the major philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
700
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
700
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745656168
SKU
V9780745656168
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About Benoît Peeters
Benoît Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. Following a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he went on to study for his Masters at the École Pratique des Hautes Études under the direction of Roland Barthes. He has since published over forty works on a wide variety of subjects and has written essays and biographies on Hergé, ... Read more

Reviews for Derrida
''Peeters has ransacked the voluminous Derrida archives and interviewed scores of his friends and colleagues. The result is a marvellously compelling account, lucidly translated by Andrew Brown. The man who emerges from this portrait is an agonised soul with sudden outbreaks of gaiety, an astonishingly original thinker with more than a dash of vanity who nevertheless made himself fully available ... Read more

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