Derrida and Autobiography

di Robert Smith (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 1995

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.

• Autore: Robert Smith
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Anno: 1995
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 212 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 141 mm
• Peso: 280 gr.
• EAN: 9780521465816

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