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Title

Derrida : a biography / Benoît Peeters ; translated by Andrew Brown.

Author

Peeters, Benoît, 1956-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, ©2013.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

Brown, Andrew (Literary translator)

Description

viii, 629 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"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 philsopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system."--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Derrida. English

Alternative Title

Derrida.

Subject

• Derrida, Jacques
• Philosophers > France > Biography

Note

• Originally published in French by Flammarion, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliogaphy [of Derrida's works]": pages 596-604.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Jackie 1930-1962: The negus 1930-1942 ; Under the sun of Algiers 1942-1949 ; The walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949-1852 ; The École Normale Supérieure 1952-1956 ; A year in America 1956-1957 ; The soldier of Koléa 1957-1959 ; Melancholia in Le Mans 1959-1960 ; Towards independence 1960-1962 -- Part II. Derrida 1963-1983: From Husserl to Artaud 1963-1964 ; In the shadow of Althusser 1963-1966 ; Writing itself 1965-1966 ; A lucky year 1967 ; A period of withdrawal 1968 ; Uncomfortable positions 1969-1971 ; Severed ties 1972-1973 ; Glas 1973-7975 ; In support of philosophy 1973-1976 ; Another life 1976-1977 ; From the Nouveaux philosophies to the Estates General 1977-1979 ; Postcards and proofs 1979-1981 ; Night in Prague 1981-1982 ; A new hand of cards 1982-1983 -- Part III. Jacques Derrida 1984-2004: The territories of deconstruction 1984-1986 ; From the Heidegger affair to the de Man affair 1987-1988 ; Living memory 1988-1990 ; Portrait of the philosopher at sixty ; At the frontiers of the institution 1991-1992 ; Of deconstruction in America ; Specters of Marx 1993-1995 ; The Derrida International 1996-1999 ; The time of dialogue 2000-2002 ; In life and death 2003-2004.

Call Number

JFE 15-5933

ISBN

• 9780745656151
• 0745656153

LCCN

2014498136

OCLC

795757034

Author

Peeters, Benoît, 1956-

Title

Derrida : a biography / Benoît Peeters ; translated by Andrew Brown.

Imprint

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, ©2013.

Edition

English ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

"Bibliogaphy [of Derrida's works]": pages 596-604.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Brown, Andrew (Literary translator)

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5933