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Limited Inc: 2 essays by Jacques Derrida (Author) & Jay Williams (Editor & Preface) & Francoise Meltzer (Introduction) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida’s work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought. These essays define three significant “periods” in Derrida’s writing: his early, seemingly revolutionary phase; a middle stage, often autobiographical, that included spirited defense of his work; and his late period, when his persona as a public intellectual was prominent, and he wrote on topics such as animals and religion. The first period is represented by essays like “The Law of Genre,” in which Derrida produces a kind of phenomenological narratology. Another essay, “The Linguistic Circle of Geneva,” embodies the second, presenting deconstructionism at its best: Derrida shows that what was imagined to be an epistemological break in the study of linguistics was actua

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Author
Jacques Derrida (Author) & Jay Williams (Editor & Preface) & Francoise Meltzer (Introduction)
Publisher
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS EVANSTON,IL
Published
1988
Language
EN
ISBN
9780810107885
Category
philosophy
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy
Rating
3.94 / 5 (528 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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