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Points... - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida (Paperback)

Points... - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by  Jacques Derrida (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This volume collects 23 interviews given over the course of the last two decades by the author. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of the Derrida's concerns, touching upon such subjects as AIDS, philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, politics, and nationalism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"A significant new scholarly resource, the interviews add up to a collective diagetical gloss on Derrida's major texts. The volume will be indispensable to any student and scholar of literature for whom deconstruction is important, whether as an inspiration and model or as a bete noire."--Henry Sussman, SUNY, Buffalo<br>"Here Derrida himself provides a guide and commentary to his work. . . . This collection is particularly welcome because Derrida's work in the past 20 years has taken off in a variety of new directions that have often left critics puzzled."--Choice<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A significant new scholarly resource, the interviews add up to a collective diagetical gloss on Derrida's major texts. The volume will be indispensable to any student and scholar of literature for whom deconstruction is important, whether as an inspiration and model or as a <i>bête noire</i>.--Henry Sussman, SUNY "Buffalo"<br><br>Here Derrida himself provides a guide and commentary to his work. . . . This collection is particularly welcome because Derrida's work in the past 20 years has taken off in a variety of new directions that have often left critics puzzled.--<i>Choice</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Elisabeth Weber is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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