The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection
by Rodolphe Gasché
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Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. "The Tain of the Mirror" (tain names the tinfoil, or lusterless back of the mirror) explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible. Gasche does what no one has done before in many discussions of Derrida, namely to tie his work in an authoritative way to its show more origins in the history of the criticism of reflexivity. -- Back cover. show lessTags
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Rodolphe Gasche is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His most recent books are The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetic (Stanford, 2003); Views and Interviews: On "Deconstruction" in America (2007), and The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, show more Philosophy (Stanford, 2007). show less
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