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Derrida downunder / edited by Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth.

Title
Derrida downunder / edited by Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth.
Publication
Palmerston North, N.Z. : Dunmore Press, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Derrida, Jacques
  • Simmons, Laurence.
  • Worth, Heather.
Description
295 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
The essays in Derrida Downunder are both a critical reading of the theoretical field encompassed by Derrida's work, and an active engagement in New Zealand's cultural and socio-political transformation at the new millennium.
Subject
  • Derrida, Jacques > Criticism and interpretation
  • Popular culture > New Zealand > History
  • Politics and culture > New Zealand > History
  • Humanities > New Zealand > History
  • National characteristics, New Zealand
  • New Zealand > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • New Zealand > Intellectual life > 21st century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Powhiri for Jacques Derrida / Laurence Simmons, Heather Worth and Graham Smith -- Preambles : disability as prosthesis / David Wills -- Quantum anthropologies / Vicki Kirby -- In Derrida's wake : why I can't think where I am / Stephen Turner -- De/feral : introduced species and the metaphysics of conservation / Nigel Clark -- A blue displacement : deconstructing the sublime / John Lyall -- The politics of friendship : Richard Killeen and Gordon Walters / Laurence Simmons -- Politics and deconstruction : Derrida, neo-liberalism, and democracy to come / Michael Peters -- Decoding responsibility / Heather Worth -- Anthropological différance : from Derrida to Lévi-Strauss / Tom Ryan -- Haunting traces of différance : Derrida and Kiwi identity / Farida Tilbury -- Sociological promises : departures, or negotiating dissociation / George Pavlich -- The future of the profession or the unconditional university / Jacques Derrida -- A roundtable discussion with Jacques Derrida / Victoria Grace ... [et al.].
ISBN
0864693745
LCCN
^^2001347735
OCLC
  • 47863613
  • SCSB-11206877
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library