Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

By: Derrida, Jacques

Book Overview

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, the community, the distinction between the messianic and the concrete...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823217558
• ISBN13: 9780823217557
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"