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By: Dr Sarah Wood

ISBN: 9780826491916
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Writing and Difference" is one of Jacques Derrida's most widely read and studied books. This book deals with the original French text and offers guidance on philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Sarah Wood

ISBN: 9780826491923
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Writing and Difference" is one of Jacques Derrida's most widely read and studied books. This book deals with the original French text and offers guidance on: philosophical and historical context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Christopher Norris

ISBN: 9781441128324
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A challenge to the inherently hostile relationship between analytic and continental philosophy through the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.


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By: Professor Christopher Norris

ISBN: 9781472525925
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A challenge to the inherently hostile relationship between analytic and continental philosophy through the work of Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.


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By: Sean Gaston

ISBN: 9781847065520
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work and through that a re-examination of the relation between war and literature. This book argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking today about war and literature.


(Paperback)

By: Sean Gaston

ISBN: 9781847065537
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work and through that a re-examination of the relation between war and literature. This book argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking about war and literature.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Anais N. Spitzer

ISBN: 9781441100207
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An examination of Derrida's work on myth and language, offering a postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth. It argues that the insights of deconstruction and complexity theory demand a re-examination of mythos (narrative, story, myth) in terms of its disseminative propensities and its disruptive interplay with logos (language, structure, word).


(Hardback)

By: Dr Anais N. Spitzer

ISBN: 9781441117106
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An examination of Derrida's work on myth and language, offering a postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth. It argues that the insights of deconstruction and complexity theory demand a re-examination of mythos (narrative, story, myth) in terms of its disseminative propensities and its disruptive interplay with logos (language, structure, word).


(Hardback)

By: Dr Nicole Anderson

ISBN: 9781441159427
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Derrida's work is controversial, it's interpretation hotly contested. This title offers a way of thinking about ethics from a Derridean perspective, linking the most abstract theoretical implications of his writing on deconstruction and on justice and responsibility to representations of the practice of ethical paradoxes in everyday life.


(Paperback)

By: Dr Nicole Anderson

ISBN: 9781472534064
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Patrick O'Connor

ISBN: 9781441171351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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A re-appraisal of the work of Jacques Derrida as decisively informed by a profane, atheistic and egalitarian trajectory.


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By: Dr Patrick O'Connor

ISBN: 9781441181701
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. This book examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.


(Hardback)

By: Professor Simon Wortham

ISBN: 9781847062475
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. This book explores the conditions of Derrida's writing and his contribution to philosophy, literature, critical and cultural theory.


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By: Professor Simon Wortham

ISBN: 9781441102010
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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As an Algerian emigre, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. This title explores the conditions of Derrida's writing and his immense contribution to philosophy, literature, critical and cultural theory.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas Deane Tucker

ISBN: 9780739116234
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Derridada explores the affinities between the work of Marcel Duchamp and the discipline of deconstruction. It is the first text to explore Duchamp's work in the context of the theories of Derrida and deconstruction.


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By: Dr James Hill

ISBN: 9781472505477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A clearly defined and original account of Descartes' concept of mind, the starting point of his whole philosophical system.


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By: Dr James Hill

ISBN: 9781441132031
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Descartes' characterisation of the mind as a 'thinking thing' marks the beginning of modern philosophy of mind. It is also the point of departure for Descartes' own system in which the mind is the first object of knowledge for those who reason 'in an orderly way'. This book shows that the Cartesian mind has been widely misunderstood.


(Hardback)

By: Dr. Justin Skirry

ISBN: 9780826486370
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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How can causal interaction occur between the spiritual mind and the physical body since they have absolutely nothing in common and cannot come into contact with one another This book shows how Descartes avoids this problem. The author argues that the union of mind and body is not constituted by efficient causal interaction for Descartes.


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By: Dr Deborah A. Boyle

ISBN: 9781441102874
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes's conception of innateness.


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By: Dr Deborah A. Boyle

ISBN: 9781847061904
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. This book argues that Descartes' remarks on innate ideas in fact form a unified account.


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By: Dr Richard Francks

ISBN: 9780826492845
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Descartes' Meditations" is one of the most important texts in the whole history of philosophy. Descartes is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the issues raised in the Meditations have often been taken to define the very nature of philosophy. This book offers an account of this philosophical work.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Richard Francks

ISBN: 9780826492838
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Descartes' Meditations" is one of the most important texts in the history of philosophy. Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the issues raised in the Meditations have often been taken to define the very nature of philosophy. This book offers an account of this philosophical work.


(Paperback)

By: Russell Shorto

ISBN: 9780349140186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A fascinating intellectual adventure story from the acclaimed author of Amsterdam and The Island at the Center of the World.


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By: Rebecca Lloyd Waller

ISBN: 9780739175224
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rebecca Lloyd Waller defends a temporal dualist interpretation of Descartes account of time to directly engage and address common interpretive puzzles. Descartes' Temporal Dualism offers a significant contribution to the understanding of an important, but frequently neglected component of Descartes ontology.

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