Derrida : a biography
by
 
Peeters, Benoît, 1956-

Title
Derrida : a biography

Author
Peeters, Benoît, 1956-

ISBN
9780745656151

Personal Author
Peeters, Benoît, 1956-

Uniform Title
Derrida. English

Publication Information
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2013.

Physical Description
viii, 629 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

General Note
Originally published in French by Flammarion, 2010.

Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I JACKIE 1930--1962 -- 1.The Negus 1930--1942 -- 2.Under the Sun of Algiers 1942--1949 -- 3.The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949--1952 -- 4.The Ecole Normale Superieure 1952--1956 -- 5.A Year in America 1956--1957 -- 6.The Soldier of Kolea 1957--1959 -- 7.Melancholia in Le Mans 1959--1960 -- 8.Towards Independence 1960--1962 -- pt. II DERRIDA 1963--1983 -- 1.From Husserl to Artaud 1963--1964 -- 2.In the Shadow of Althusser 1963--1966 -- 3.Writing Itself 1965--1966 -- 4.A Lucky Year 1967 -- 5.A Period of Withdrawal 1968 -- 6.Uncomfortable Positions 1969--1971 -- 7.Severed Ties 1972--1973 -- 8.Glas 1973--1975 -- 9.In Support of Philosophy 1973--1976 -- 10.Another Life 1976--1977 -- 11.From the Nouveaux Philosophes to the Estates General 1977--1979 -- 12.Postcards and Proofs 1979--1981 -- 13.Night in Prague 1981--1982 -- 14.A New Hand of Cards 1982--1983 -- pt. III JACQUES DERRIDA 1984--2004 -- 1.The Territories of Deconstruction 1984--1986 --
 
Contents note continued: 2.From the Heidegger Affair to the de Man Affair 1987--1988 -- 3.Living Memory 1988--1990 -- 4.Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty -- 5.At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991--1992 -- 6.Of Deconstruction in America -- 7.Specters of Marx 1993--1995 -- 8.The Derrida International 1996--1999 -- 9.The Time of Dialogue 2000--2002 -- 10.In Life and in Death 2003--2004.

Abstract
The definitive biography of the philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). In writing this biography, Benoit Peeters talked to over a hundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida. He is also the first person to make use of the huge personal archive built up by Derrida throughout his life and of his voluminous correspondence.

Personal Subject
Derrida, Jacques.

Subject Term
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.

Added Author
Brown, Andrew Dr.


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