How to Read Derrida

How to Read Derrida

<p><strong>Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the <em>How to Read</em> series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.</strong></p> An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In Derrida€s view, texts and contexts are woven with inconsistencies and blindspots, which provide us with a chance to think in new ways about, among other things, language, community, identity and forgiveness. Derrida€s suggestions for €œhow to read€ lead to a new vision of ethics and a new concept of responsibility.<br /><br /> Penelope Deutscher discusses extracts from the full range of Derrida€s work, including <em>Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Limited Inc, The Other Heading: Reflections on Europe, Monolinguism of the Other, Given Time</em>, and €œForce of Law."