Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g
Reihe: Literature, Culture, Theory
Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g
Reihe: Literature, Culture, Theory
ISBN: 978-0-521-46581-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.
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Part I. The Book of Esther: 1. Incipit; 2. Pure reason, absolute knowledge, pure change; 3. Suffering: 4. His life story; Part II. Clarifying Autobiography: 5. Worstward ho: some recent theories; 6. Labyrinths; Part III. The Book of Zoë: 7. auto; 8. bio; 9. graphy.
