Book of Addresses
Peggy Kamuf
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Description for Book of Addresses
Hardback. This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act), but also of its reception at another's address. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804750585
SKU
V9780804750585
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About Peggy Kamuf
Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
Reviews for Book of Addresses
"What pleasure, what serious and playful pleasures I had reading this magnificent, substantial book. It is thoroughly knowledgeable, concerned both to guide the reader who is uncertain and to satisfy the one who is informed."
Hélène Cixous, Collège International de Philosophie
Paris
"Those of us uprooted by the force of Derrida's writing are fortunate to have Kamuf's ... Read more
Hélène Cixous, Collège International de Philosophie
Paris
"Those of us uprooted by the force of Derrida's writing are fortunate to have Kamuf's ... Read more