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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2009
      June 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511597497
      9780521465816
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597497
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.28kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (16)
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    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
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    Literature, Culture, Theory (16)
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    The work of Jacques Derrida can be seen to reinvent most theories. In this book Robert Smith offers both a reading of the philosophy of Derrida and an investigation of current theories of autobiography. Smith argues that for Derrida autobiography is not so much subjective self-revelation as relation to the other, not so much a general condition of thought as a general condition of writing - what Derrida calls the 'autobiography of the writing' - which mocks any self-centred finitude of living and dying. In this context, and using literary-critical, philosophical, and psychoanalytical sources, Smith thinks through Derrida's texts in a new, but distinctly Derridean, way, and finds new perspectives to analyse the work of classical writers including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, and de Man.

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