Research Catalog

Title

Jacques Derrida / Roland A. Champagne.

Author

Champagne, Roland A.

Publication

New York : Twayne Publishers ; Canada : Maxwell Macmillan, 1995.

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Description

xviii, 138 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• Jacques Derrida (1930-) is widely regarded as among the most influential - and controversial - of contemporary French intellectuals. The author of numerous, ground-breaking works on philosophy, literature, and aesthetic theory, he is a founding member of the prestigious College International de Philosophie, and in France he has played a major role in transforming the teaching of philosophy.
• In the United States, where he has taught regularly since the early seventies, his rigorous and allusive writings have been at the (often volatile) center of critical debates surrounding literary theories of deconstruction and have influenced an entire generation of scholars and students.
• Yet Derrida's work has also frequently been attacked as needlessly hermetic and perniciously frivolous. In this clear-headed and critical study, Roland A. Champagne provides a lucid introduction to Derrida's thought for the general, educated reader. He traces Derrida's intellectual formation, from his boyhood as a Sephardic Jew in the educational system of French colonial Algeria, to his training at the Ecole normale superieur in Paris; from his early exchanges with Althusser, Hyppolite, and Foucault, to his widening contemporary influence in American academic circles; from his early studies of the phenomenology of Husserl and Heidegger, to his involvement with speech-act theory, to his abiding preoccupation with the works of Levinas, Jabes, and Celan, with Jewish identity and the political engagement of feminist theory.

Series Statement

Twayneʼs world authors series ; TWAS 854

Uniform Title

Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 854.

Subject

• Derrida, Jacques
• Criticism
• Literature > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Is Undecidability an Alternative to Scientific Structures? Husserl and the Book -- Ch. 2. How Does Translation Retain the Jealousy between Inside and Outside? Philosophy Since Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Ch. 3. Is the Signature a Censor of Interpretation? The Presence of Heidegger -- Ch. 4. Can Speech Acts Be Felicitous? The Subversion of the Context -- Ch. 5. Is Language Biodegradable? From Lacan Back to Plato -- Ch. 6. Why Me Again? The End of Man and the Ethics of the Conscious Subject -- Ch. 7. How Does One Choreograph the Lifelong Dance of Death? Derrida's Response to the Ethics of Levinas -- Ch. 8. Can There Be Responsibility Without Anguish? Face-to-Face with de Man, Heidegger, and Schibboleth -- Ch. 9. Can Phallogocentrism Be Rewritten? Derrida Struggles with Feminism -- Conclusion: Is Being a Gadfly Enough for Derrida? Concluding the Inconclusive.

ISBN

0805743103

LCCN

94003682

OCLC

• 30780096
• ocm30780096

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries