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Biography

Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown

by Shannon Burns
November 2013, no. 356

Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown

Polity (Blackwell), $47.95 hb, 637pp, 9780745656151

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By what right, and in accordance with what set of social conditions or teleological commitments, ideologies, cultural and biographical conventions, and in whose name might one begin to speak of, formulate, detail, or analyse the life of Jackie aka ‘Jacques’ Derrida?

 


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Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters, translated by Andrew Brown

Polity (Blackwell), $47.95 hb, 637pp, 9780745656151

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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