Jacques Derrida, Glas University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1990 PDF English 262 Pages 13.8 MB Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. Its appearance will assist Derrida's readers pro and con in coming to terms with a complex and controversial book.

Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the text. Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranged in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel’s philosophy and Jean Genet’s fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another. The customary segregation of philosophy, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, and poetics is systematically subverted. In design and content, the books calls into question “types” of literature (history, philosophy, literary criticism), the ownership of ideas and styles, the glorification of literary heroes, and the limits of literary representation.

University of Nebraska Preſs Lincoln and London. Download Chessbase 10 Portable Best there. Jacqueſ Derrida. English Translation by John P. Leavey, Jr., and Richard Rand. Preparation of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the Program for Translations of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency. Jacques Derrida - Glas - Ebook download as PDF File (.pdf) or read book online.