On the Name

"A major new book by Derrida that represents his most recent thinking, and includes landmark readings of Plato and the German poet-mystic Angelus Silesius. The essays are wonderfully rich and provocative, and, in spite of their apparent diversity of topic, are bound together as three ways of approaching the problematic of naming and speaking of something that exceeds 'isness.' " --J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

About the author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the ecole des hautes etudes 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.

Summary

This volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming"

Additional text

“A major new book by Derrida that represents his most recent thinking, and includes landmark readings of Plato and the German poet-mystic Angelus Silesius. The essays are wonderfully rich and provocative, and, in spite of their apparent diversity of topic, are bound together as three ways of approaching the problematic of naming and speaking of something that exceeds ‘isness.’ ”—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Derrida, Thomas Dutoit, Derrida Jacques
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1995
• EAN: 9780804725545
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-2554-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; The Making of Modern Freedom; Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day