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Futures: Of Jacques Derrida

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Description for Futures: Of Jacques Derrida paperback. In this text, seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction, address the millennial issue of our futures, promises, prophecies, projects and possibilities including the possibility that there may be no future at all. Editor(s): Rand, Richard. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.

Seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction, address the millennial issue of our “futures,” “promises,” “prophecies,” “projects,” and “possibilities”—including the possibility that there may be no “future” at all. Speculative in every sense, these essays are marked by a common concern for the act of reading as it is practiced in the work of Jacques Derrida. The contributors—Geoffrey Bennington, Paul Davies, Peter Fenves, Werner Hamacher, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Elisabeth Weber, and Jacques Derrida himself—study a range of authors, including Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Leibniz, Marx, Benjamin, Koyré, Arendt, and Lacan.

These readings are neither prescriptive, definitive, nor definitional. Each ... Read more

These essays, though arising from deconstruction, point out the ways in which deconstruction has yet to occur, and they do so by scanning the unattainable horizons marked off by thinkers at the forefront of our modern era.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present Series
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804739566
SKU
V9780804739566
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About Richard Rand (Ed.)
Richard Rand is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). He has translated texts by Derrida and is the editor of Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties.

Reviews for Futures: Of Jacques Derrida
"This book, which includes a major piece by Derrida, may serve as a switching station, a relay that amplifies the legacy of deconstruction, demonstrating its continuing vitality and even more its necessary relevance for the questions of politics and ethics that face us in the new century."—Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida "At its best moments. . . . this ... Read more

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