Derrida and Differance

edited by David Wood and Robert Bernasconi

Northwestern University Press, 1988
Cloth: 978-0-8101-0785-4 | Paper: 978-0-8101-0786-1
Library of Congress Classification B2430.D484D48 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 194

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

A collection of six essays by British and American philosophers, Derrida and Différance represents recent appropriations of Derrida's thought at the Warwick Workshops on Continental Philosophy. With an introductory letter by and interview with Derrida, Derrida and Différance focuses on the celebrated term "différance," a neologism devised by Derrida to denote the influence of differentiation in the structuring of all signification.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

DAVID WOOD is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick. His previous books include "The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction "(2005)," Thinking After Heidegger" (Blackwell, 2002), "The Deconstruction of Time" (2001), "Derrida: A Critical Reader "(Blackwell, 1992), and "Philosophy at the Limit" (1990).

ROBERT BERNASCONI is Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He has published numerous articles and collections including "The Question of Language in Heidegger's History of Being" (1985), and "Heidegger in Question" (1993).

REVIEWS

"Indispensable for all further discussions of [Derrida's work] . . ." —John Sallis

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abbreviations
Letter to a Japanese Friend JACQUES DERRIDA
translated by David Wood and Andrew Benjamin
Engorged Philosophy: A Note on Freud, Derrida, and Différance DAVID FARRELL KRELL
The Trace of Levinas in Derrida ROBERT BERNASCONI
The Original Difference: Différance WALTER BROGAN
The Economy of Duplicity GAYLE ORMISTON
Thresholds JOHN LLEWELYN
Différance and the Problem of Strategy DAVID WOOD
An Interview with Derrida (from le nouvel observateur)
translated by David Allison, et al.
The Original Discussion of "Différance" (1968)
translated by David Wood, Sarah Richmond, and Malcolm Bernard

Notes on the Contributors

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