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Without Alibi
Jacques Derrida
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Paperback. This volume brings together five essays by Jacques Derrida that advance his reflections on many issues: lying perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and cruelty, soverignty, and capital punishment. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
This book brings together for the first time five recent essays by Jacques Derrida, which advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital punishment. Strongly linked by their attention to performatives and the as if, the essays show the necessity of thinking beyond the category of acts that are possible for a subject. Derrida argues forcefully that thought must engage with the im-possible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolute future still to come. This acute ... Read more
This book brings together for the first time five recent essays by Jacques Derrida, which advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital punishment. Strongly linked by their attention to performatives and the as if, the essays show the necessity of thinking beyond the category of acts that are possible for a subject. Derrida argues forcefully that thought must engage with the im-possible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolute future still to come. This acute ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804744119
SKU
V9780804744119
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About Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Stanford has published twelve of his books, most recently Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (2002) and Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (2002)
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