Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative
relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of
his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing
arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing
that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida’s
work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002,
Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to the
philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define
three significant “periods” in Derrida’s writing: his early,
seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical,
that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when
his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on
topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented
by essays like “The Law of Genre,” in which Derrida produces a
kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, “The Linguistic
Circle of Geneva,” embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism
at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an
epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actually a
repetition of earlier concepts. The final period of Derrida’s
writing includes the essays “Of Spirit” and “The Animal That
Therefore I Am (More to Follow),” and three eulogies to the
intellectual legacies of Michel Foucault, Louis Marin, and Emmanuel
Lévinas, in which Derrida uses the ideas of each thinker to push
forward the implications of their theories. With an introduction by
Francoise Meltzer that provides an overview of the oeuvre of this
singular philosopher, Signature Derrida is the most wide-ranging, and
thus most representative, anthology of Derrida’s work to date.
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9780226924557
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2018
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University of Chicago Press Journals
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