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Philosophy 167 TITLE : The Work of Mourning AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $15.00 – Paper 2003 - 272 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14281-4 Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher—if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an illustrious career, and, among many who were his colleagues and peers, he inspired friendship. The Work of Mourning is a collection that honors those friendships in the wake of passing. Gathered here are texts—letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations—written after the deaths of well-known figures: Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabès, Louis Marin, Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie Benoist, Joseph Riddel, and Michel Servière. TITLE : The Gift of Death AUTHRO : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $12.00 – Paper 1996 – 124p ISBN: 978-0-226-14306-4 In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion TITLE : Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $37.50 – Paper 1993 - 152 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14308-8 In this brilliant essay, Jacques Derrida explores issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, while offering detailed readings of an extraordinary collection of images. Selected by Derrida from the prints and drawings department of the Louvre, the works depict blindness—fictional, historical, and biblical. From Old and New Testament scenes to the myth of Perseus and the Gorgon and the blinding of Polyphemus, Derrida uncovers in these images rich, provocative layers of interpretation. TITLE : Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $21.00 – Paper 1994 - 182 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14314-9 Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as well as essays by Benveniste and Levi-Strauss that assume Mauss's legacy. It is, however, a short tale by Baudelaire, Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Philosophy 168 "Counterfeit Money," that guides Derrida's analyses throughout. At stake in his reading of the tale, to which the second half of this book is devoted, are the conditions of gift and forgiveness as essentially bound up with the movement of dissemination, a concept that Derrida has been working out for many years TITLE : The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $27.50 – Cloth 2003 - 321 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14315-6 Derrida's first book-length work, The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, was originally written as a dissertation for his diplôme d'études supérieures in 1953 and 1954. Surveying Husserl's major works on phenomenology, Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's central notion of genesis, and gives us our first glimpse into the concerns and frustrations that would later lead Derrida to abandon phenomenology and develop his now famous method of deconstruction. For Derrida, the problem of genesis in Husserl's philosophy is that both temporality and meaning must be generated by prior acts of the transcendental subject, but transcendental subjectivity must itself be constituted by an act of genesis. Hence, the notion of genesis in the phenomenological sense underlies both temporality and atemporality, history and philosophy, resulting in a tension that Derrida sees as ultimately unresolvable yet central to the practice of phenomenology TITLE : Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $18.00 – Paper 1991 - 148 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14319-4 I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman. "Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts."—David Hoy, London Review of Books TITLE : The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $29.00 – Paper 1979 – 552 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14322-4 You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but indecipherably. What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you are. At the very instant when from its address it interpellates, you, uniquely you, instead of reaching you it divides you or sets you aside, occasionally overlooks you. And you love and you do not love, it makes of you what you wish, it takes you, it leaves you, it gives you. On the other side of the card, look, a proposition is made to you, S and p, Socrates and plato. For once the former seems to write, and with his other hand he is even scratching. But what is Plato doing with his outstretched finger in his back? While you occupy yourself with turning it around in every direction, it is the picture that turns you around like a letter, in advance it deciphers you, it preoccupies space, it procures your words and gestures, all the bodies that you believe you invent in order to determine its outline. You find yourself, you, yourself, on its path. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Philosophy 169 TITLE : The Truth in Painting AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $28.00 – Paper 1987 - 402 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14324-8 The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics."—Alexander Gelley, Library Journal TITLE : Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche. AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $22.00 – Paper 1979 - 172 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14333-0 Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis of the challenges bequeathed to the modern world by Nietzsche. Spurs, then, is aptly titled, for Derrida's "deconstructions" of Nietzsche's meanings will surely act as spurs to further thought and controversy. This dual-language edition offers the English-speaking reader who has some knowledge of French an opportunity to examine the stylistic virtuosity of Derrida's writing—of particular significance for his analysis of "the question of style." TITLE : Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression AUTHOR : Derrida, Jacques PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS $15.00 – Paper 1998 - 128 p ISBN: 978-0-226-14367-5 In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology—fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling. TITLE : A Derrida Reader : Between the Blinds AUTHOR : Edited by Peggy Kamuf PUB : COLUMBIA U PRESS $30.00 – paper June, 1991 - 625 pages ISBN: 0-231-06659-7 An extraordinary, subtle and informative anthology .