Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery

by John Schad

Book Overview

Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Murder, he thought. And so I shall investigate, and begin with a sign that the philosopher says he left within a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845190319
• ISBN13: 9781845190316
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.6"