Psyche, Volume 1: Inventions of the Other

By Jacques Derrida

Book Overview

Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others. The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man, Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"), as well as three essays that appear here in English for the first time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747997
• ISBN13: 9780804747998
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"