Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

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Who Was Jacques Derrida? ...

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? Who Was Jacques Derrida An Intellectual Biography DAVID MIKICS Yale University Press New Haven &London ...

Copyright © 2009 by David Mikics. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrat ...

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 ONE From Algeria to the École Normale: Sartre, He ...

viii Contents FOURGadamer, Celan, de Man, Heidegger FIVE Politics, Marx, Judaism Coda Notes Index ...

Acknowledgments John Kulka and Jennifer Banks, my editors at Yale University Press, accompanied me every step of the way. This b ...

also Wendy Scheir and Farnoosh Fathi. Jenn Lewin provided cheer and intellectual guidance. And completing this book with- out th ...

Preface At the age of eighteen, I became a follower of Jacques Derrida. The year was 1980. The school was New York University, l ...

citable and soul-wringing. Sartre was about love and death, re- ligious belief, murder and suicide. He made you feel like a memb ...

our senses, that nothing is reliable. Every belief system claims an anchor in the way things really are. But, the skeptic asks, ...

his thought, in spite of itself, is deeply personal: the thinker’s intellectual existence cannot be isolated from his emotional ...

Abbreviations WORKS BY JACQUES DERRIDA Acts
Acts of Religion.Ed. Gil Anidjar. New York: Routledge, 2002. Counterpath
Counterpath ...

Philosophy
Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Haber- man and Jacques Derrida.With Giovanna Borradori. Chicago ...

Edmund Husserl
Maurice Natanson,Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks.Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974. ...

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Introduction uring his lifetime, Derrida elicited both intense cel- ebration and intense scorn. Rather than judging him in the m ...