Reactions to Derrida vary dramatically: some regard him as a charlatan, as simply nihilistic and irrationalist; others as an extraordinarily clear and patient thinker, concerned with the affirmation and elaboration of a new enlightenment. However construed, his work in the field of deconstruction has been a decisive point of reference and orientation for cultural and intellectual debate in the English-speaking world. This study of Derrida aims to explain what Derrida has to say in relation to a wide range of topics, including molluscs, surprise, multiple voices, absolute danger, telepathy, laughter, self-portraits, love, foreign bodies and ghosts. It also presents different readings, beyond and after Derrida. In addition, the author discusses the work of Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Toni Morrison, Foucault, Salman Rushdie, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Samuel Beckett.
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Obscure, self-referential, obfuscatory nonsense.,
By Mike Cormack (Aberdeen, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I read this whilst at uni, where the author was teaching a course on deconstruction I foolishly too, to prove my intellectual prowess. It is the most obscure piece of writing I have ever had the misfortune to set my eyes on, where the reader's understanding of Derrida (already an obscure and frustrating writer himself) is second to the self-regarding masturbatory verbal gymnastics. Apparently deconstruction is a "poetico-telephony". Yeah right.badwisdom7@hotmail.com
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