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Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader

Hardback

Main Details

Title Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Tom Cohen
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:344
Dimensions(mm): Height 237,Width 157
Category/GenreLiterary studies - general
Western philosophy from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521623704
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 January 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of a range of disciplines in the humanities through its questioning of some of the basic tenets of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work; the assembled contributions - on law, literature, ethics, history, gender, politics and psychoanalysis, among others - constitute an investigation of the role of Derrida's work within the field of humanities, present and future. The volume is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's own address on 'the future of the humanities'. In addition to its pedagogic interest, this collection of essays attempts to respond to the question: what might be the relation of Derrida, or 'deconstruction' to the future of the humanities? The volume presents the most sustained examples yet of what deconstruction is in its current phase - as well as what its possible future may be.

Author Biography

Tom Cohen is Professor at the Department of English at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of Anti-Mimesis (Cambridge, 1994)and Ideology and Inscription (Cambridge, 1998). He is also contributing editor of Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (2000).