Derrida : writing events

Summary: Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories of Derrida''s work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his th.

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ISBN: 6612870753
ISBN: 9786612870750
ISBN: 9781282870758
ISBN: 1282870750
ISBN: 9781472546357
ISBN: 1472546350
ISBN: 1441100121
ISBN: 9781441100122
Physical Description: 1 online resource (145 pages)
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Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-142) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : writing the event, or, citations from an archive of the future -- The archive and the anthological -- Writing obsession -- Writing friendship : Agamben and Derrida -- Anonymity writing pedagogy : Beckett, Descartes, Derrida -- Raelity -- Can dreaming be 'political'? : some questions on the politics of cultural studies : an interview with Paul Bowman -- End note : saying the event.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Language Note:	English.
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.