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This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference, fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Book of Addresses
• Author: Peggy Kamuf
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780804750585
• ISBN: 0804750580
• ID: 04717840
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 603 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2005

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