An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida - Couverture souple

Salmon, Peter

 
9781788732819: An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida

Synopsis

Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to little more than an object of ridicule. For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. In An Event Perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times. Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, this biography will introduce to a new readership to the life and work of a philosopher whose influence over the way we think will continue long into the twenty-first century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Salmon is a teacher of creative writing and a writer. His novel, The Coffee Story , was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written for the Guardian, the Sydney Review of Books, the New Humanist, as well as Australian TV and radio. He has received Writers Awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1788732804 ISBN 13 :  9781788732802
Editeur : Verso Books, 2020
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