Derrida : a biography / Benoît Peeters ; translated by Andrew Brown.
Derrida : a biography / Benoît Peeters ; translated by Andrew Brown.
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2013.
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G 2013/532
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viii, 629 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I JACKIE 1930--1962 -- 1.The Negus 1930--1942 -- 2.Under the Sun of Algiers 1942--1949 -- 3.The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949--1952 -- 4.The Ecole Normale Superieure 1952--1956 -- 5.A Year in America 1956--1957 -- 6.The Soldier of Kolea 1957--1959 -- 7.Melancholia...
Contents note continued: 2.From the Heidegger Affair to the de Man Affair 1987--1988 -- 3.Living Memory 1988--1990 -- 4.Portrait of the Philosopher at Sixty -- 5.At the Frontiers of the Institution 1991--1992 -- 6.Of Deconstruction in America -- 7.Specters of Marx 1993--1995 -- 8.The Derrida Interna...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2013.
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England
Date Published
c2013.
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The definitive biography of the philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). In writing this biography, Benoit Peeters talked to over a hundred individuals who knew and worked with Derrida. He is also the first person to make use of the huge personal archive built up by Derrida throughout his life and of his voluminous correspondence.
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Derrida : a biography / Benoît Peeters ; translated by Andrew Brown.
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Originally published in French by Flammarion, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2013.
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G 2013/532
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74VvBEvdxD7A
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0745656153
9780745656151
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194
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991016467019702626
