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Derrida is one of those annoying geniuses you can take a class on, read half-a-dozen books by and still have no idea what he's talking about. Derrida's "writing" confusing doesn't begin to describe it (it's like he's pulling the rug out from under the rug that he pulled out from under philosophy.) But beneath the confusion, like the heartbeat of a bird in your hand, you can feel Derrida's electric genius. It draws you to it; you want to understand it... but it's so confusing. Derrida For show more Beginners is the clearest explanation of Derrida and deconstruction presently available in our solar system. Powell guides us through blindingly obscure texts like Of Grammatology (Derrida's deconstruction of Saussure, Lévi Strauss, and Rousseau), 'Différance' (his essay on language and life), Dissemination (his dismantling of Plato, his rap on Mallarmé), and Derrida's other masterpieces (the mere titles can make strong men tremble in terror - Glas, Signéponge/Signsponge, The Post Card, and Specters of Marx.) Readers will learn the coolest Derridian buzzwords (e.g., intertextuality, binary oppositions, hymen, sous rature, arche-writing, phallogocentrism), the high-and-low lights of deconstruction's history (including the DeMan controvercy), and the various criticisms of Derrida and deconstruction, including Camille Paglia's objection that America, the rock-n-roll nation, isn't formal enough to need deconstruction. show lessTags
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Estou até vendo eu misturar (propositalmente) Derrida com Lacan na prática clínica. Rá!
No mais esse livrinho é bem interessante e um dos melhores como introdução ao pensamento de Derrida, porque essa série pode ser para principiantes e cheios de figuras, mas nenhum deles pega leve na conceituação teórica.
No mais esse livrinho é bem interessante e um dos melhores como introdução ao pensamento de Derrida, porque essa série pode ser para principiantes e cheios de figuras, mas nenhum deles pega leve na conceituação teórica.
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