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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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Offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes's conception of innateness.

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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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"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.

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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.

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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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Descartes held that only ideas are immediately perceived, and that all ideas are really identical to mental states. This book brings a fresh perspective to debate over whether Descartes was a representationalist or a direct realist, and sheds light on his difficult notions of material falsity and the self-representational character of thought.

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Descartes' works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. This book argues that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works - and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes.

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But why did Descartes think we should take these exaggerated doubts seriously And if we do take them seriously, how did he think any of our beliefs could ever escape them This work undertakes a study of Descartes's first three meditations to answer these questions and to present a fresh way of understanding precisely what Descartes was up to.