Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines

by Dr Marian Hobson, Marian Hobson

Overview

In Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, Marian Hobson gives us a thorough and elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal contemporary thinker. Looking closely at the language and the construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, Hobson suggests the way he writes, indeed the fact he writes in another language, affects how he can be understood by English speakers.
This superb study on the question of language will make illuminating reading for anyone studying or engaged with Derrida's philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134774449
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/2012
Series:	Critics of the Twentieth Century
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Marian Hobson is Professor of French at the University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College. She is the author of The Object of Art (1982) and co-editor of Reappraisals of Rousseau (1980) and Rousseau et le dix-huitième siècle (1993).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Histories and Transcendentals; Chapter 2 Replications; Chapter 3 Strange Attractors; Chapter 4 Negatives and Steps; Chapter 5 Contacts;

What People are Saying About This

Rodolphe Gasche

In this exceptionally sophisticated book Marian Hobson has done what no other book to date on Derrida has done: to explore the relation of argument to the mode of writing. This superb study on the question of language in Derrida, shows Derrida's work to stage incalculable possibilities of connection from whence future commentaries are allowed to proceed.

Editorial Reviews

Offers an elegant analysis of this controversial and seminal thinker. Looks closely at the language and construction of some of Derrida's philosophy, and suggests that the way he writes, indeed the fact that he writes in another language, affects how he can be understood by English speakers. Discusses his syntax and patterns between the empirical and the transcendental, then looks at his lexemes, the repetition of circuits of argument in his texts, and how his writing develops a brand of consistency by the way arguments relate to each other. Hobson is professor of French at the University of London. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

'Of great interest to anyone who wishes to engage at a serious level with Derrida's thought.' - Times Literary Supplement

'A sophisticated analysis of the mode of Derrida's argumentation which explores what lies beneath the surface logic - or contestation of logic - in his texts.' - Christina Howells, FS, LIII.4, 1999

'Provides... a series of sophisticated lines that re-open our critical conditioning.' - MLR

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