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Derrida and Autobiography

By Robert Smith

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780511597497, 0521465818, 0521460050, 0511597495, 9780521460057, 9780521465816
LCC
B2430.D484 S55 1995
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1055049 bytes)
Series
Literature, Culture, Theory 16
Pages
212\208
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories; here Robert Smith offers a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing that mocks any self-centered finitude of living and dying. In this context, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new way, and finds new perspectives to analyze classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud and de Man.

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