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A Biography

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Polity Press
30 November 2012

Biography: general; Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

This biography of Jacques Derrida tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system. We are plunged into the different worlds in which Derrida lived and worked: pre-independence Algeria, the microcosm of the Ecole normale superieure, the cluster of structuralist thinkers, and the turbulent events of 1968 and after. We meet the exceptional series of leading writers and philosophers with whom Derrida struck up a friendship: Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Genet and Helene Cixous, among others. And we watch as a concept - deconstruction - takes wing and exerts an extraordinary influence on literary studies, architecture, law, theology, feminism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies. Benoit Peeters' book offers a new and deeper understanding of the man who will perhaps be seen as the major philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century.

By: Benoît Peeters
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 56mm
Weight: 1.134kg
ISBN: 9780745656151
ISBN 10: 0745656153
Pages: 700
Publication Date: 30 November 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

* Acknowledgements * Introduction * PART I: JACKIE 1930-1962 * CHAPTER 1 The Negus 1930-1942 * CHAPTER 2 Under the sun of Algiers 1942-1949 * CHAPTER 3 The walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949-1952 * CHAPTER 4 The Ecole normale superieure 1952-1956 * CHAPTER 5 A year in America 1956-1957 * CHAPTER 6 The soldier of Kolea 1957-1959 * CHAPTER 7 Melancholia in Le Mans 1959-1960 * CHAPTER 8 Towards independence 1960-1962 * PART II: DERRIDA 1963-1983 * CHAPTER 1 From Husserl to Artaud 1963-1964 * CHAPTER 2 In the shadow of Althusser 1963-1966 * CHAPTER 3 Writing itself 1965-1966 * CHAPTER 4 A lucky year 1967 * CHAPTER 5 A period of withdrawal 1968 * CHAPTER 6 Uncomfortable positions 1969-1971 * CHAPTER 7 Severed ties 1972-1973 * CHAPTER 8 Glas 1973-1975 * CHAPTER 9 In support of philosophy 1973-1976 * CHAPTER 10 Another life 1976-1977 * CHAPTER 11 From the 'nouveaux philosophes' to the Estates general * 1977-1979 * CHAPTER 12 Envois and proofs 1979-1981 * CHAPTER 13 Night in Prague 1981-1982 * CHAPTER 14 A new set of circumstances 1982-1983 * PART III: JACQUES DERRIDA 1984-2004 * CHAPTER 1 The territories of deconstruction 1984-1986 * CHAPTER 2 From the Heidegger affair to the Paul de Man affair 1987-1988 * CHAPTER 3 Living memory 1988-1990 * CHAPTER 4 Portrait of the philosopher at sixty * CHAPTER 5 At the frontiers of the institution 1991-1992 * CHAPTER 6 Of deconstruction in America * CHAPTER 7 Spectres of Marx 1993-1995 * CHAPTER 8 The Derrida International 1996-1999 * CHAPTER 9 The time of dialogue 2000-2002 * CHAPTER 10 Till death us do part 2003-2004 * Notes * Sources * Bibliography

Benoit Peeters was born in Paris in 1956. Following a degree in Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I), he went on to study for his Masters at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes under the direction of Roland Barthes. He has since published over forty works on a wide variety of subjects and has written essays and biographies on Herge, Alfred Hitchcock, and Paul Valery.

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A real tour de force. Assimilating a vast amount of material - Derrida's own voluminous publications, unpublished documents and correspondence, and conversations with a host of acquaintances - Benoit Peeters has produced a compelling narrative that sheds light on all aspects of Derrida's remarkable career. Jonathan Culler, Cornell University

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