Derrida and autobiography
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Derrida and autobiography
（Literature, culture, theory, 16）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Book of Esther: 1. Incipit
- 2. Pure reason, absolute knowledge, pure change
- 3. Suffering: 4. His life story
- Part II. Clarifying Autobiography: 5. Worstward ho: some recent theories
- 6. Labyrinths
- Part III. The Book of Zoe: 7. auto
- 8. bio
- 9. graphy.
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