The French Connections of Jacques Derrida

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Edited by Julian Wolfreys, John Brannigan and Ruth Robbins

State University of New York Press

Due/Published April 1999, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0791441326

Essays that address Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture. Examines the development of Derrida's work in the context of structuralism, biology, and linguistics in the 1960s, and looks at the relationship between Derrida's writing and that of the Surrealist and Oulipa groups.

Contributors: Boris Belay, John Brannigan, Christopher Johnson, John P. Leavey, Jr., Ian Maclachlan, Jessica Maynard, Lauren Milesi, Ruth Robbins, Michael Syrotinksi, Michael Temple, Burhan Tufail, Julian Wolfreys.