Derrida: A Biography
Polity (Blackwell), $47.95 hb, 637pp, 9780745656151
Biography
Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown
by Shannon Burns •
By what right, and in accordance with what set of social conditions or teleological commitments, ideologies, cultural and biographical conventions, and in whose name might one begin to speak of, formulate, detail, or analyse the life of Jackie aka ‘Jacques’ Derrida?
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