Peter Salmon

Broschiertes Buch

An Event, Perhaps

A Biography of Jacques Derrida

Beschreibung

Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to 'little more than an object of ridicule'. For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. In An Event Perhaps, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times. Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, this biography will introduce to a new readership to the life and work of a philosopher whose influence over the way we think will continue long into the twenty-first century.

Autor

Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in the UK. His first novel, The Coffee Story, was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written for the Guardian, the New Humanist, the Sydney Review of Books and Tablet, as well as Australian TV and radio. Formerly Centre Director of the Jon Osborne/The Hurst Arvon Centre, he also teaches creative writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6708
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781788732819
• ISBN-10: 1788732812
• Artikelnr.: 61119463

Rezensionen

This is a compulsively readable intellectual biography of Derrida that teases out his endlessly fascinating thought, even when it is at its knottiest, with admirable patience and lucidity. Salmon's book, in vividly transmitting the intellectual excitement of Derrida's times, reminds the reader that, especially in his thinking about ethics, he remains a philosopher who is urgently, politically relevant to our times too. Matthew Beaumont, Professor at English at University College, London