Dissemination

"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives-against the grain of language-to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature-on the other hand-flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination-more than any previous work-Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth."-Peter Dews, New Statesman

Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780226503479
ISBN10: 022650347X
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Philosophy | Movements | Deconstruction

About the Author
Barbara Johnson is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.