Jacques Derrida; Richard Rand; John P. Leavey Additional Author mixed material bibliography University of Nebraska Press 1986

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262 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, <i>Glas</i>. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial�book. <i>Glas</i> 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. <br><br><i>Glas</i> 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.<br><br> 2718600152 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 193 DERR 3342 C2O library & collabtive (History & Geography) 3250 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated