UID:
almafu_9960119629302883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-59749-5
Series Statement:
Literature, culture, theory ; 16
Content:
The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
,
pt. 1. The book of Esther -- pt. 2. Clarifying autobiography -- pt. 3. The book of Zoë.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-46581-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-46005-0
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597497
