Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I

by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf (Editor), Elizabeth G. Rottenberg (Editor)

Overview

Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others. The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man, Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"), as well as three essays that appear here in English for the first time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804747981
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2007
Series:	Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series , #1
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are H. C. for Life, That Is to Say (2006), Paper Machine (2005), On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (2005), Rogues (2005), and Eyes of the University(2004). All of these have been published by the Stanford UniversityPress. Peggy Kamuf is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Elizabeth Rottenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago.

Table of Contents

Editors Foreword     ix
Author's Preface     xii
Psyche: Invention of the Other     1
The Retrait of Metaphor     48
What Remains by Force of Music     81
To Illustrate, He Said...     90
Envoi     94
Me-Psychoanalysis     129
At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am     143
Des tours de Babel     191
Telepathy     226
Ex abrupto     262
The Deaths of Roland Barthes     264
An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter"     299
Geopsychoanalysis "and the rest of the world"     318
My Chances / Mes chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies     344
Racism's Last Word     377
No Apocalypse, Not Now: Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives     387
Notes     411
Sources     432
Index of Proper Names     435

Editorial Reviews

"A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning, and a welcome addition to philosophy shelves and libraries."

Midwest Book Review

"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work."

DePaul University - Michael Naas

"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought."

Emory University - Geoffrey Bennington

"Derrida's writing is never easy, but the 16 pieces gathered here are exceptionally lucid and clearly translated, and they offer a useful, engaging entrée to Derrida's work for advanced undergraduates and all graduate philosophy students."

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"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Hei

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