Jacques Derrida

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by Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida

University of Chicago Press

Due/Published April 1999, 432 pages, paper

ISBN 0226042626

New in paper! (S99)

"Bennington's account of what Derrida is up to is better in almost all respects--more intelligent, more plausible, more readable, and less pretentious--than any other I have read."--Richard Rorty, Contemporary Literature

This book offers a biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar though widely misunderstood work on language as well as the themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. In an unusual "dialogue," Derrida responds to Bennington's text by interweaving Bennington's writing with surprising and disruptive "periphrases." Chicago calls it a "dual and dueling text." Gee, I wish I'd said that.

Series: Religion and Postmodernism