Jenny Uglow on the artist E.H. Shepard, famous for his illustrations of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows, and his lesser-known work, sketches from the trenches of World War I
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Jacques Derrida's library goes to Princeton / The Derrida Dictionary. 德希達《友愛共同體》中的政治與親密問題Politics of Friendship Jacques Derrida's library goes to Princeton / The Derrida Dictionary. 德希達《友愛共同體》中的政治與親密問題Politics of Friendship
Politics of Friendship Jacques Derrida Verso, 1997 - Family & Relationships - 308 pages A rich exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future, by the most influential of contemporary philosophers. Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconstruction, by turns stimulating and fascinating, yet always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of our time. Or so it seemed. Derrida's "political turn," marked especially by the appearance of Specters of Marx, has surprised some and delighted others. In The Politics of Friendship Derrida renews and enriches this orientation through an examination of the political history of the idea of friendship pursued down the ages. Derrida's thoughts are haunted throughout the book by the strange and provocative address attributed to Aristotle, "my friends, there is no friend" and its inversions by later philosophers such as Montaigne, Kant, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Blanchot. The exploration allows Derrida to recall and restage the ways in which all the oppositional couples of Western philosophy and political thought—friendship and enmity, private and public life—have become madly and dangerously unstable. At the same time he dissects genealogy itself, the familiar and male-centered notion of fraternity and the virile virtue whose authority has gone unquestioned in our culture of friendship and our models of democracy The future of the political, for Derrida, becomes the future of friends, the invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and more inclusive democracy. This remarkable book, his most profoundly important for many years, offers a challenging and inspiring vision of that future.More »
Jacques Derrida was born in El-Biar, Algeria on July 15, 1930. He graduated from the École Normal Supérieure in 1956. He taught philosophy and logic at both the University of Paris and the École Normal Supérieure for around 30 years. His works of philosophy and linguistics form the basis of the school of criticism known as deconstruction. This theory states that language is an inadequate method to give an unambiguous definition of a work, as the meaning of text can differ depending on reader, time, and context. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books on various aspects of deconstruction including Of Grammatology, Glas, The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, and Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 9, 2004 at the age of 74.
Jacques Derrida, the inventor of “deconstruction”—an ill-defined habit of dismantling texts by revealing their assumptions and contradictions—is one of the most cited modern scholars in the humanities. He is also one of the most controversial, as many find his work to be absurd, vapid and pernicious. The intellectual was born on July 15th 1930
譬如說， 編出許多經濟/管理/哲學等大家的"論集" 和字典等等。
可惜定價都相當高。
不過，一本百來多頁的哲學家辭典， 賣60英鎊，對許多大學還是很可接受的
譬如說，Derrida Dictionary - Continuum www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId...Basic - 頁庫存檔16 Sep 2010 – The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the ...
The Derrida Dictionary
The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Derrida's thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Derrida's writings and detailed synopses of his key works.
The Dictionary also includes entries on Derrida's major philosophical influences and those he engaged with, such as Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Freud, Heidegger, Foucault, Lacan and Levinas. It covers everything that is essential to a sound understanding of Derrida's philosophy, offering clear and accessible explanations of often complex terminology. The Derrida Dictionary is the ideal resource for anyone reading or studying Derrida, deconstruction or modern European philosophy more generally.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology of Derrida's Life and Works
A-Z Dictionary
Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University London, UK.
Reviews
“Simon Morgan Wortham’s Derrida Dictionary is a spectacular intellectual accomplishment. He has amazing mastery of all Derrida’s multitudinous writings (about seventy books, an immense number of articles and interviews). Perhaps the highest praise I can make of this extraordinary and extraordinarily valuable book is that each entry, rather than closing the door on a given Derridean topic, makes you want to go back and read or reread for yourself Archive Fever or Paper Machine or Without Alibi, and all the rest of those seventy books.” – J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA, author of For Derrida (Fordham, 2009)
“This is no ordinary dictionary. Simon Morgan Wortham provides not only comprehensive, rigorously defined, and well-contextualised terms that cross-reference other terms and books across the corpus of Derrida's work, but in the process offers a lucid exposition of Derrida’s work itself.” – Nicole Anderson, Co-Editor/Founder Derrida Today journal, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
“Simon Morgan Wortham’s dictionary is much more than a dictionary; it is, above all, a remarkable collection of short essays on Derrida’s major works and concepts that will serve as valuable introductions to newcomers and useful reminders to those already familiar with Derrida’s writings. Doing full justice to all periods and areas of Derrida’s work, it succeeds in showing both his extraordinary range and the connections and continuities that link his various ventures in thought.” – Derek Attridge, University of York, UK
'Simon Morgan Wortham’s Dictionary is an indispensable tool for anyone entering or continuing to work in theory. For those of us who have been doing so for some time, the Dictionary serves as a reminder of how timely Derrida’s work was and is: a Derrida Dictionary for today and very much for tomorrow.' -- Derrida Today
Quel difference! Jacques Derrida's library has landed at Princeton
The personal library of Jacques Derrida, the father of Deconstructionism, has abandoned France for New Jersey.
Princeton has acquired the library, consisting of 13,800 books and other materials. The university took delivery of the materials on March 19.
Derrida, who died in 2004, was a literary critic and philosopher who moved to France from Algeria in 1949. He wrote in French, and he's commonly thought of as a French theorist.
Nevertheless, his library is now in New Jersey. Many of the volumes are full of notes in Derrida's hand. He once explained that his books bear "traces of the violence of pencil strokes, exclamation points, arrows and underlining."
Princeton professor Hal Foster, co-director of the university's Program in Media and Modernity, said in a release, "Derrida developed his own thought through a meticulous engagement with other thinkers, past and present, thinkers who at once constitute the Western traditions of philosophy and literature and defy them (indeed they constitute them in part because they defied them). What a boon it is for us at Princeton to have his notes on these thinkers and writers, to see the master of textuality perform, as it were, on other master texts."
As the Derrida materials are processed, they will be added to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton's Firestone Library, where they will be available to scholars.
這批資料是今年3月19日從巴黎運抵普林斯頓，之前普林斯頓曾派出專家組對這些資料進行清理。目前，這批資料保存在普林斯頓燧石圖書館的“珍本圖書與特別收藏部門”（Department of Rare Books and Special Collections），除了這批珍貴的德里達的私人藏書，這裡還收集了大量的私人藏書及手稿，包括2014年接收的諾貝爾文學獎得主托尼·莫里森、1995年接收的西班牙語世界最出名的散文家及小說家之一卡洛斯·富恩特斯（Carlos Fuentes）的私人藏書及手稿，等等。
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