Claire Colebrook - Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derridas work from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as technology, psychoanalysis, friendship, Marxism, racism and sexism, to his ethico-political writings and his deconstruction of democracy. An international team of contributors provide both an examination of the key concepts central to Derridas thinking and a broader study of how that thinking shifted over a lifetime. In doing so, this book offers the reader a clear, systematic and fresh examination of the astounding breadth of Derridas philosophy.

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her books include Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002), Irony (Routledge, 2004), and William Blake and Digital Aesthetics (2011). She is co-author (with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller) of Theory and the Disappearing Future (Routledge, 2011).

Key Concepts

The Key Concepts series brings the work of the most influential philosophers and social theorists to a new generation of readers. Each volume is structured by the central ideas or concepts in a thinkers work, with each chapter in a volume explaining an individual concept and exploring its application.

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Jacques Derrida

Key Concepts

Edited by
Claire Colebrook

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Contents

MAURO SENATORE

MAEBH LONG

ROBERT BERNASCONI

ANNE C. McCARTHY

KEVIN HART

TIMOTHY MORTON

NICOLE ANDERSON

ROBERT BRIGGS

SAMIR HADDAD

PENELOPE DEUTSCHER

ALEX THOMSON

JOANNA HODGE

MICHAEL NAAS

CLAIRE COLEBROOK

LEONARD LAWLOR

JEFFREY T. NEALON

NIALL LUCY

TOM COHEN

In June 2014, while this book was in production, Niall Lucy died of cancer. In addition to being a great friend and colleague to many of us who contributed to this volume, Niall was also one of the most gifted writers working on Derrida, deconstruction and critical theory more generally. This book is dedicated to his memory.