Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, "Glas." Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. "Glas" extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive ...
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Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, "Glas." Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book. "Glas" extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text. "Glas" is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel s philosophy and Jean Genet s fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question types of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation."
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Very Good. 1974. Paperback. Pap. Quarto. 291 numbered pages. Small tear in front wrap at base of spine, crease and tear at fore-edge, with crease extending across bottom corner. Small cut in same between title and fore-edge. Light crease in rear wrap down center and at top corner, with small tear in top edge. Corners starting to splay. Some scuffing and rubbing, notably along edges of spine. Sewn binding somewhat tender along endpaper, but otherwise remains firm. Overall, a sound first edition with clean internals Very Good. (Subject: Books).
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