The Derrida Reader Writing Performances

Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys

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Publisher's Synopsis

This reader brings together selected (complete or self-contained) texts which are not generally anthologised, particularly those which deal with specifically literary writers and literary topics. The collection focuses on a number of texts which address French writers and writers in French, such as Valéry, Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, while also addressing other concerns prominent throughout Derrida's career as a writer, such as Plato, Freud and Marx.

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ISBN:	9780748609659
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:	01 May 1998
DEWEY:	194
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	294
Weight:	818g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm