Derrida, Jacques/ Krupnick, Mark / [Paul de Man].

Displacement. Derrida and After. [Includes: Paul de Man: Hegel on the Sublime]. Gregory L. Ulmeaul de Man, Michael Ryan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1983. 24.5cm x 16cm. ix, (3) 198 pages. Original hardcover in original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. Even though no sign of it, this was the personal copy of Paul de Man.

Essays included are: Gregory L. Ulmer: Op Writing: Derrida’s Solicitation of Theoria/ Herman Rapaport: Staging: Mont Blanc/ Tom Conley: A Trace of Style/ Susan Handelman: Jaques Derrida and the Heretic Hermeneutic/ Paul de Man: Hegel on the Sublime/ Michael Ryan: Deconstruction and Social Theory: The Case of Liberalism/ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Displacement and the Discourse of Woman.

The focus of this book is Jacques Derrida – his own writing and the new directions he has opened up in literary criticism and theory. Until now there has been no book in English exclusively devoted to essays elucidating Derrida’s writings and using these writings to explore new terrain not investigated by Derrida himself.

Derrida is an enormously inventive thinker, possible the most important European philosopher since Heidegger. This collection seeks to provide a view of Derridean criticism that will be of value to beginners but also to experienced Derrideans. These essays, all published here for the first time, are demanding, but hte introductory essay by Mark Krupnick and the prefaces to the book’s individual sections should prove helpful to both the uninitiated and devotees.

Derrida’s writings are so various that an unfocused sampler of critical essays might be confusing. The present collection differs from most in being organized about a central idea: “displacement.” This involves no narrow or sectarian interpretation of Derrida, for “displacement” is a term with such broad implications that it offers the student a handhold and organizes the various essays without forcing an arbitraary delimitation. The individual essays are Derridean in method and spirit. Some are commentaries on Derrida, while others are “readings” influenced by him.

• Keywords: Library & Collection Building · Paul de Man Collection
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253318033
• Inventory Number: 40760AB