Theory and Practice

Jacques Derrida, David Wills

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English

Chicago University Press
31 January 2019

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Social & political philosophy

Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida

Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting.

Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx by Louis Althusser. Derrida’s many questions to Althusser and other thinkers aim at unsettling the distinction between thinking and acting.

Derrida’s investigations set out from Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach,” in particular the eleventh thesis, which has often been taken as a mantra for the “end of philosophy,” to be brought about by Marxist practice. Derrida argues, however, that Althusser has no such end in view and that his discourse remains resolutely philosophical, even as it promotes the theory/practice pair as primary values. This seminar also draws fascinating connections between Marxist thought and Heidegger and features Derrida’s signature reconsideration of the dichotomy between doing and thinking. This text, available for the first time in English, shows that Derrida was doing important work on Marx long before Specters of Marx. As with the other volumes in this series, it gives readers an unparalleled glimpse into Derrida’s thinking at its best—spontaneous, unpredictable, and groundbreaking.

By: Jacques Derrida
Other: David Wills
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780226572345
ISBN 10: 022657234X
Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 31 January 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. David Wills is professor of French and comparative literature at Brown University.

Reviews for Theory and Practice

"""Wills's nuanced, word-play-sensitive translation includes foreign terms for those with ears to hear the etymological associations so important to Derrida's arguments and presents a crisp, clear, elegant statement of the author's text. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.""-- ""CHOICE"" ""Jacques Derrida's Theory and Practice, a seminar he taught at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) over the academic year 1976-1977, has all the signs of being a highly provocative text. . . . Derrida's readings are always enlightening. And in David Wills's excellent translation, we are confronted with rigorous and probing investigations of the theory/practice opposition, which weave together Marx and Althusser with Kant, Heidegger, and Aristotle in surprising ways.""--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ""For Anglophone readers who view deconstruction as a set of arguments about language and literature or see Derrida's early 1990s exploration of Marxism as weak and belated, Theory and Practice is enlightening.""-- ""Los Angeles Review of Books"""