Geschlecht III - Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity

"This book is an event in Derrida scholarship, as it marks the publication of a long-lost Derrida text simply as "Geschlecht III," which the French philosopher never completed. Part of a series of reflections that represent his most sustained engagement with the writings of Martin Heidegger, this third part was thought by Derrida himself to be the heart of his Geschlecht series. The enigmatic word itself has several meanings in German, and Derrida teases out its implications for topics as diverse and provocative as sexual difference, nationalism, race, and humanity, engaging with Heidegger's controversial oeuvre throughout, as well as a host of other philosophical thinkers and even poetic ones, in the case of Georg Trakl. Thanks to the meticulous editorial work of Geoffrey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth, and Rodrigo Therezo, and vividly rendered by Chenoweth and Therezo's translation, Derrida's most mysterious text, awaited for decades, is finally available for new generations to ponder"--

About the author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études 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. Geoffrey Bennington is the Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author of several books on Derrida and translator of many others by him. Katie Chenoweth is associate professor of French at Princeton university and the director of Bibliothèque Derrida at Éditions du Seuil and of the digital humanities project, Derrida's Margins. Rodrigo Therezo is editor of several books and the translator of Peter Trawny's Martin Heidegger: A Critical Introduction.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Derrida, Jacques Bennington Derrida
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Bennington (Editor), Bennington Geoffrey (Editor), Katie Chenoweth (Editor), Rodrigo Therezo (Editor), Katie Chenoweth (Translation), Rodrigo Therezo (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780226677460
• ISBN: 978-0-226-67746-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Gender studies, gender groups, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism