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Writing and Difference Hardcover – 18 May 2001

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In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.

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    0415255376
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'Perhaps the world's most famous philosopher.' -New York Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 2 edition (18 May 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 470 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415255376
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415255370
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), was born in Algeria, has been called the most famous philosopher of our time. He was the author of a number of books, including Writing and Difference, which came to be seen as defining texts of postmodernist thought.

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AKASH GAUR
5.0 out of 5 stars Reasonably priced yet contenting
Reviewed in India on 28 August 2019
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Good book, like a part of anthology. But yet quite rich to be consumed
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James Maloney
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully written; intriguing and thought-provoking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018
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As always with Jacques Derrida...wonderfully written; intriguing and thought-provoking..
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5.0 out of 5 stars DERRIDA'S DOCTRINE OF THE "LOGOS" DEFINED:
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DERRIDA'S DOCTRINE OF THE "LOGOS" DEFINED:
I had already conquered Derrida's "Grammatlogy"; and that is the best reference for the totality of his position. So I only acquired this volume to get a better understanding of his take on "LOGOS". He does this in a very precise way in the first three essays, pages 1-85. I felt the price of the book was well worth the value of acquiring these three essays. I may read the others at a later date, but right now they do not interest me. My attention was solely on "logos".
Obviously, having an understanding of the "Grammatology" will help the reader; or some prior understanding of Derrida's position. He is not easy reading. But, having said that; he is fully accessible to any reader with some foundational work already internalized.

Basically Derrida gives the reader a triad to consider:

We actually pass through a triad of "logos":

A. LOGOS-COGITO: "logismos" (reasoning") + "huperbole" (madness, in the positive sense of "otherness")
LOGOS = ARCHAIC-REASON

B. LOGOS-CLASSICAL: "logismos" + "hubris" (otherness as derangement and excessiveness; in order to establish a hard duality)
LOGOS = OMNIPOTENT-DETERMINATE-REASON

C. LOGOS-POST-MODERN: "logismos" + "subjective-huperbole"
LOGOS = LESSER-DETERMINED-REASON

In addition to this fine exposition, Derrida also addresses the "history-of-tradition", which is the "book-of-logos". This he approaches from his Jewish perspective and articulates it within the context of "exile", wandering in the desert, sands-of-madness, and the glimpse of "traces" that can be found in the desert. The majority of emphasis is on subjectivity; and the "self" is the substance of "LOGOS". So no post-modern surprise there.
But, there is a real genuine moment of discovery in Derrida's discussion of the Exodus. I found it very unique; but very powerful in its unique approach. The key for Derrida is the breaking of the tablets; the moment of rupture within god himself that allows for differentiation and the human speech-act (and human "writing"). Out of rupture evolves a poetic-autonomy of subjectivity which works toward consecration through "writing".
Personally I must give this manuscript 5 stars, based on the first three essays alone. Derrida is a treasure of discovery. Enjoy your research.

A BONUS MONOGRAPH ON LEVINAS: a book in itself; this 75 page monograph deserves the highest recommendation. Derrida, in his humility, says it will just be a brief overview. Instead; it is a precise, distinguished commentary on Levinas. Derrida articulates Levinas "empirical-metaphysics" as an important contribution to properly understanding LOGOS within a post-modern context. And the final 11 pages of this monograph give us a precise logical articulation of the "metaphysic". This is very significant material to be enclosed in this collection.
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Amy
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 March 2018
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Good boos. Useful for my dissertation.
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Dylan O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars Different Writing
Reviewed in the United States on 14 February 2017
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Writer? Hermeneut? Obscuritan extraordinaire?

Derrida is a tough nut to crack. All of his work denies itself primacy, and its profundity can only be detected through subtle twists in the background of thought. Tedious, grating, irritating, but always playful, tasteful, and ethical, Derrida's work often pokes fun at the strangely predictable obsession with/for transgression developed by his cohorts, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and especially Georges Bataille. Somewhat ironic that Derrida is so often categorized as yet another "destructive, nihilistic marxist", when a great deal of his work is dedicated to showing how to surpass precisely this position.

Also touched upon in Writing and Difference are Edmund Husserl, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Sigmund Freud. In these cases, his work is more one of "defusing".

If you don't already have an in-depth interest in multiple of these authors, Derrida will probably be of little use to you. That's somewhat unfortunate, because it means that Derrida's writing is relegated to being a kind of PlayPlace for academicians who are sick of the semi-fascistic interpretative orthodoxy exerted over the institutional study of these thinkers. So then, I'd encourage you, even if you will be "in over your head" when reading Derrida, to give him a whack, and a very good one at that. Take what you can and leave the rest. If nothing else, you'll be able to approach the incredibly important and interesting works Derrida writes about with a fresh and unique perspective. Reading Derrida won't help you figure anything out, but it will certainly give your method a jolt or two, and if you're an academic, it might give your mind a good dusting.

And for goodness' sake, don't become a "derridean"...
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