Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery - Couverture souple

Schad, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845190319 ISBN 13 : 9781845190316

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Murder, he thought. And so I shall investigate, and begin with a sign that the philosopher says he left within a book from the thirteenth century, a strange fortune-telling book that he had found in the oldest part of Oxford's Bodleian Library. In the book are a host of cryptic questions, but the philosopher directs us to one in particular, a peculiar question about a boy, and the question is this: Does the boy live? The philosopher will not, though, give the answer; he requires, instead, that we go to Oxford to open the book for ourselves.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845190319
• ISBN 13: 9781845190316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 211