Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994

Jacques Derrida

Published by Stanford University Press 1995

Points...

Interviews, 1974-1994

Jacques Derrida

In the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503622425

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This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings. Often, as in the interview on Heidegger, or that on drugs, or on the nature of poetry, these interviews offer not only an introduction to other discussions, but something available nowhere else in his work. When did feminist discourse become an indispensable consideration for deconstruction? What was the impact on Derrida's work of his being an Algerian Jew growing up during World War II? Is there an ineradicable gap between language-based attitude such as those found in a deconstruction and subjectivity-oriented critical models such as those developed by Foucault and Lacan? Such questions as these are answered with great thoughtfulness and intensity. Derrida's oral style is patient, generous, and helpful. His tone varies with the questioners and the subject matter—militant, playful, strategic, impassioned, analytic: difference in modulation can sometimes be heard within the same dialogue. The informality of the interview process frequently leads to the most succinct and lucid explications to be found of many of the most important and influential aspects of Derrida's thought. Sixteen of the interviews appear here for the first time in English, including an interview, conducted especially for this volume, concerning the recent exchange of letters in the New York Review of Books.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Foreword to the English Translation Peggy Kamuf Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Upside-Down Writing Elisabeth Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Between Brackets I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Ja, or the faux-bond II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
«The Almost Nothing of the Unpresentable » Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Choreographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Of a Certain Collège International de Philosophie Still to Come Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Unsealing ("the old new language") Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
« Dialanguages » Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Voice II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Language(Le Monde on the Telephone) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Heidegger, the Philosophers' Hell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Comment donner raison? «How to Concede, with Reasons?» Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
«There is No One Narcissism» (Autobiophotographies) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Is There a Philosophical Language? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
The Rhetoric of Drugs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
«Eating Well,» or the Calculation of the Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Che cos'è Ia poesia? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
lstrice 2: Ick bünn all hier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Once Again from the Top: Of the Right to Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
«A 'Madness' Must Watch Over Thinking» Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Counter-Signatures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Passages from Traumatism to Promise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Honoris Causa: «This is also extremely funny» Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
The Work of Intellectuals and the Press (The Bad Example: How the New York Review of Books and Company Do Business) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	422
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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 516
Keywords: Literary Studies -- General Criticism and Theory; Philosophy

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Published: January 21, 2022
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