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Dissemination

Door Jacques Derrida

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#348153-VB43
Titel
Dissemination
Auteur
Derrida, Jacques
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
The University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave
1981
ISBN10
0226143341
ISBN13
9780226143347
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
"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 allusi... (Lees verder)ons, 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
Pagina's
366
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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