DERRIDA JACQUES

(H/B) THE DEATH PENALTY (VOLUME 1)
In this newest instalment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established - and to the place it has been mo...
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(P/B) WITHOUT ALIBI
This book brings together five recent essays by Jacques Derrida that 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 impossible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolut...
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ΠΕΡΙ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ
Στο πολυσυζητημένο τούτο βιβλίο του ο Ντερριντά επιδιώκει να θεμελιώσει την γραμματολογία, δηλαδή την επιστήμη της γραφής, πάνω σε νέες φιλοσοφικές βάσεις. Διαπιστώνει ότι η μέχρι τώρα κυρίαρχη αντίληψη πάνω στις σχέσεις ομιλίας και γραφής στάθηκε δέσμια της λογοκεντρικής και ευρωκεντρικής μεταφυσικής και συνδέει την καινούρια ερμηνεία του φαινομένου της γραφής με τα προβλήματα που παρουσιάζει το ξεπέρασμα της μεταφυσικής τούτης. Συνάμα εκθέτει τις απόψεις του ανοίγοντας ένα ζωντανό διάλογο τόσο με τα σύγχρονα ρεύματα της γλωσσολογίας και ...
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(P/B) POSITIONS
This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduction by Christopher Norris setting these key early interviews in the context of the full trajectory of Derrida's thought. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) SOVEREIGNTIES IN QUESTION
This book brings together five powerful encounters. Themes central to all of Derrida's writings thread the intense confrontation between the most famous philosopher of our time and the Jewish poet writing in German who, perhaps more powerfully than any other, has testified to the European experience of the twentieth century. They include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; temporal structures of futurity and the to come; the multiplicity of language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony...
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(H/B) ATHENS, STILL REMAINS
Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Francois Bonhomme. But in Derridas hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several unexpected and mutually illuminating directions. First published in French and Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida's most sustained analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium. At once photographic anal...
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(H/B) GENESES, GENEALOGIES, GENRES AND GENIUS
In this book Derrida responds to the work "Dream I Tell You" by Helene Cixous, using it to explore the nature of the literary archive, the production of literature and Cixous' genius. These texts allow the reader to puzzle the genealogy of deconstruction and to consider the importance of the poetic and sexual difference to the entirety of Derrida's work. They also demonstrate that, as Derrida admits, he has always been a devotee of Cixous. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ON COSMOPOLITANISM AND FORGIVENESS
One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possible to uphold international hospitality and justice in the face of increasing nationalism and civil strife in so many countries? Drawing on examples of treatment of minority groups in Europe, he skilfully and accessibly probes the thinking that underlies much of the practice, and rhetoric, that informs cosmopolitanism. What have duties and rights to do with hospitality? Should hospitality be groun...
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(H/B) THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN (VOLUME ONE)
When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida's exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001-2002, Derrida continu...
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(P/B) ACTS OF LITERATURE
Acts of Literature, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare, and Kafka, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history, and Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, with sugg...
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(P/B) ARCHIVE FEVER
In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology - fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteri...
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ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ ΦΑΡΜΑΚΕΙΑ
"Κρατώντας το φάρμακον με το ένα χέρι, τον κάλαμο με το άλλο, ο Πλάτων μεταγράφει το παιχνίδι των μαγικών συνταγών μουρμουρίζοντας. Ο κλειστός χώρος του φαρμακείου ενισχύει υπέρμετρα την αντήχηση του μονολόγου. Ο εντειχισμένος λόγος (parole) προσκρούει στις γωνίες του τοίχου, κάποιες λέξεις αποσπώνται, τα ξεφτίδια των φράσεων χωρίζονται, εξαρθρωμένα μέλη κυκλοφορούν ανάμεσα στους διαδρόμους, παγιώνονται όσο κρατάει μια διαδρομή, αλληλομεταφράζονται, ξανααρθρώνονται, συγκρούονται και αναπηδούν, αντιφάσκουν, κάνουν ιστορίες, επανέρχονται σαν...
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(P/B) SOVEREIGNTIES IN QUESTION
This book brings together five powerful encounters. Themes central to all of Derrida's writings thread the intense confrontation between the most famous philosopher of our time and the Jewish poet writing in German who, perhaps more powerfully than any other, has testified to the European experience of the twentieth century....
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(P/B) BASIC WRITINGS
One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida’s ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to present his most important philosophical writings and is an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Barry Stocker’s clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Derrida’s writings for the firs...
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(P/B) MEMOIRS OF THE BLIND
In this brilliant essay, Jacques Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-epresentation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, the works depict blindness - fictional, historical, and biblical. From Old and New Testament scenes to the myth of Perseus and the Gorgon and the blinding of Polyphemus, Derrida uncovers in these images rich, provocative layers of interpretation. For Derrida drawi...
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ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΤΑΦΡΑΣΗ
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(P/B) MEMOIRES

(P/B) LEARNING TO LIVE FINALLY
With death looming, Jacques Derrida, the world's most famous philosopher-known as the father of "deconstruction"-sat down with journalist Jean Birnbaum of the French daily Le Monde. They revisited his life's work and his impending death in a long, surprisingly accessible, and moving final interview. Sometimes called "obscure" and branded "abstruse" by his critics, the Derrida found in this book is open and engaging, reflecting on a long career challenging important tenets of European philosophy from Plato to Marx. The contemporary meaning ...
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(P/B) SPURS
Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis of the challenges bequeathed to the modern world by Nietzsche. Spurs, then, is aptly titled, for Derrida's "deconstructions" of Nietzsche's meanings will surely act as spurs to further thought and controversy. This dual-language edition of...
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(P/B) DISSEMINATION
"In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weav[es] a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to be the literature of truth." New Statesman Jacques Derrida (1930-) is Professor of Philosophy at ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris. Regarded as the founding father of Deconstruction, his influence on contemporary thought has been enormous. His impact on philosophy and literary criticism wa...
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