(H/B) DERRIDA

Παρουσίαση

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 Ecole Normale Superieure, the cluster of structuralist thinkers, and the turbulent events of 1968 and after. We meet the remarkable series of leading writers and philosophers with whom Derrida struck up a friendship: Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Genet, and Helene Cixous, among others. We also witness an equally long series of often brutal polemics fought over crucial issues with thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, John R. Searle, and Jurgen Habermas, as well as several controversies that went far beyond academia, the best known of which concerned Heidegger and Paul de Man. We follow a series of courageous political commitments in support of Nelson Mandela, illegal immigrants, and gay marriage. And we watch as a concept - deconstruction - takes wing and exerts an extraordinary influence way beyond the philosophical world, on literary studies, architecture, law, theology, feminism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies.
In writing this compelling and authoritative biography, Benoit 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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: JACKIE 1930-1962
CHAPTER 1 The Negus 1930-1942
CHAPTER 2 Under the sun of Algiers 1942-1949
CHAPTER 3 The walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949-1952
CHAPTER 4 The Ecole normale superieure 1952-1956
CHAPTER 5 A year in America 1956-1957
CHAPTER 6 The soldier of Kolea 1957-1959
CHAPTER 7 Melancholia in Le Mans 1959-1960
CHAPTER 8 Towards independence 1960-1962
PART II: DERRIDA 1963-1983
CHAPTER 1 From Husserl to Artaud 1963-1964
CHAPTER 2 In the shadow of Althusser 1963-1966
CHAPTER 3 Writing itself 1965-1966
CHAPTER 4 A lucky year 1967
CHAPTER 5 A period of withdrawal 1968
CHAPTER 6 Uncomfortable positions 1969-1971
CHAPTER 7 Severed ties 1972-1973
CHAPTER 8 Glas 1973-1975
CHAPTER 9 In support of philosophy 1973-1976
CHAPTER 10 Another life 1976-1977
CHAPTER 11 From the 'nouveaux philosophes' to the Estates general
1977-1979
CHAPTER 12 Envois and proofs 1979-1981
CHAPTER 13 Night in Prague 1981-1982
CHAPTER 14 A new set of circumstances 1982-1983
PART III: JACQUES DERRIDA 1984-2004
CHAPTER 1 The territories of deconstruction 1984-1986
CHAPTER 2 From the Heidegger affair to the Paul de Man affair 1987-1988
CHAPTER 3 Living memory 1988-1990
CHAPTER 4 Portrait of the philosopher at sixty
CHAPTER 5 At the frontiers of the institution 1991-1992
CHAPTER 6 Of deconstruction in America
CHAPTER 7 Spectres of Marx 1993-1995
CHAPTER 8 The Derrida International 1996-1999
CHAPTER 9 The time of dialogue 2000-2002
CHAPTER 10 Till death us do part 2003-2004
Notes
Sources
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