A Derrida Reader
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A Derrida Reader
by Authors:
Peggy Kamuf
Released: 15 April, 1991
ISBN: 0231066597
Paperback
Sales Rank: 179620
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Customer Review #1:
 probes from concepts on high as a bird in flight looking
by far this is the most accessible introduction tothe forbidden threshold of Derridas thought. Peggy Kamuf mounts the fairly limitless edifice of his work through seasoned selected excerpts,If you are fascinated forever by the conceptual,the literary,or analytic,the performative or philosphic focus,Derridas work is like an alive moment that touches each in between elements of text,of ideas.All sometimes in simultanaeity or in context to each.If you come to Derrida it must from some place(time,geographic/cultural)some discipline,and sadly enough that acts to skew and blind,to opaque-ify Derridas virtuoso,contextual,cross-referencing,overdetermined,overanalyzed modes of thought. But if you have scoured literature(Blanchot,Ponge,Jabes) not for its own sake,or thought,looked at ideas(Plato) (Heidegger) retrogressively yet with a committment to subversion(Genet) (Marx) of the Western canon,Derrida work serves these realms quite admirably.I humbly request you gander and pass time at this collection, peak between the blinds(Kamufs metaphor)before you proceed directly to an original work. Derridas work has that element of throwing forward a growth of petrified thought finding new conceptual life in the present, or not so distant past. So wherever you begin in Derrida it is like a timeless warp to be repeated some place,some time to come or had come,or had been,or will not ever be.
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Customer Review #2:
 good ideas, tedious excursion
Its unfortunate that Derrida has carried on the Western philosophical tradition of unnecessarily turgid, convoluted, and just plain bad writing inaugurated by the inflated Hegel and exemplified by Sartre and a host of other heady hacks. On the plus side, this is a solid collection of Derridas most important pieces and enumerates some of his best ideas: difference, logocentrism, the trace, etc. Not for beginners, but if youre determined to read an important thinker, this may be required reading...some of it anyhow.
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Customer Review #3:
One of the best anthologies I have read during recent years.
Peggy Kamuf offers a well organized anthology of Derridas varied contributions.
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