{"product_id":"writing-and-difference-9780226502830","title":"Writing and Difference","description":"First published in 1967, \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought--one of his main targets being the way in which \"structuralism\" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and \u003ci\u003edifférence\u003c\/i\u003e--the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical \"concept\" that does not exclude writing--for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing, --new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers--challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226502830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Jacques Derrida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023041192117,"sku":"9780226502830","price":26.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780226502830.jpg?v=1787665844","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/writing-and-difference-9780226502830","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}