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Dissemination

By Jacques Derrida, Barbara Johnson (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780226143347

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"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson. . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literatContinue

"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson. . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination—more than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth."—Peter Dews, New Statesman

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  • Return of Oedipus

    Jacques Derrida once defined his intellectual project with the aid of an image from the Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale. It was a question, he suggested, of ‘vomiting up’ philosophy and restoring her to the ‘sea of texts’ from which she had pro ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0226143341
  • ISBN-13: 9780226143347
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
  • Pub date: Feb 15, 1983
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages Livres Français
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