Research Catalog

Title

Theory and practice / Jacques Derrida ; translated by David Wills ; edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf.

Author

Derrida, Jacques

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wills, David, 1953-
• Bennington, Geoffrey
• Kamuf, Peggy

Description

xiv, 125 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida's many questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the distinction between thinking and acting. 0Derrida's investigations set out from Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach," in particular the eleventh thesis, which has often been taken as a mantra for the "end of philosophy," to be brought about by Marxist practice. Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end in view and that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, even as it promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values. This seminar also draws fascinating connections between Marxist thought and Heidegger and features Derrida's signature reconsideration of the dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text, available for the first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing important work on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into Derrida's thinking at its best--spontaneous, unpredictable, and groundbreaking.

Series Statement

• The seminars of Jacques Derrida
• Derrida, Jacques. Works. Selections. English. 2009.

Uniform Title

Théorie et pratique. English

Alternative Title

Théorie et pratique.

Subject

• Theory (Philosophy)
• Practice (Philosophy)
• Philosophy, Marxist

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-4618

ISBN

• 9780226572345
• 022657234X
• 9780226572482 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018023877

OCLC

1028883989

Author

Derrida, Jacques, author.

Title

Theory and practice / Jacques Derrida ; translated by David Wills ; edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The seminars of Jacques Derrida

Derrida, Jacques. Works. Selections. English. 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wills, David, 1953- translator.

Bennington, Geoffrey, editor.

Kamuf, Peggy, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4618