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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Derrida and Autobiography
• Author: Robert Smith
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780521465816
• ISBN: 0521465818
• ID: 02031982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 280 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 141 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1995

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