صور دريدا ثلاث مقالات عن التفكيك

by Christopher Norris, حسام نايل (translator)

لجاك دريدا الذي يبلغ من العمر اليوم سبعين عاماً، مكان مميز في لوحة المشهد النقدي الفرنسي المعاصر. وذلك ان دريدا في اعماله الكبرى قد شاد بناء تفكيكياً يقوم على عدة ركائز. الكشف عن اقتصاد النص المكتوب. القضاء على اللاهوت الانطلوجي، الابانة عما يسيطر عليه الكاتب وما لا يسيطر عليه من نماذج اللغة التي يستخدمها

Genres: Philosophy, Criticism, Biography, Theory, Nonfiction

214 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1987

About the author

As of 2007 he is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He completed his PhD in English at University College London in 1975, while Sir Frank Kermode served as the Lord Northcliffe Professor of modern English literature there.

Until 1991 Norris taught in the Cardiff English Department. He has also held fellowships and visiting appointments at a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, the City University of New York and Dartmouth College.

He is one of the world's leading scholars on deconstruction, particularly in the work of Jacques Derrida. He has written numerous books and papers on literary theory and continental philosophy. Norris is now considered a philosopher in his own right: 2003's Life After Theory reference required featured an interview with Norris, placing him alongside Derrida as a significant contemporary.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really digestible explication of Derrida's approach (especially what he has against the privileging of speech).

[Bernard English · Rating 4 out of 5]

'Who is more faithful to reason's call,' he [Derrida] asks, 'who hears it with a keener ear . . . the one who offers questions in return and tries to think through the possibility of that summons, or the one who does not want to hear any question about the principle of reason?'

If the reader takes this line of questioning seriously, he will enjoy this book and find it helpful. Readers will have to read Derrida's writings themselves to decide whether he should be dismissed as merely a "literary" gadfly as Ayer calls him or to take his approach seriously. Before picking up this book by Norris I've only read very dismissive things about him, by for example John Searle. This account is account by Norris portrays Derrida in a generally favorable light.

Especially intriguing is the apparent influence of Derrida's Jewish background on his writing. The rabbinical tradition and its endless interpretation of texts which themselves were thereby elevated to some kind of sacred texts contrasts sharply with the Christian identification of the "Word of god with the Logos" and an accompanying distrust of the written word. It certainly seems like a plausible explanation for some of the material quoted by Norris.

[Nathan David · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an introduction, this book approaches the significant ideas of Jacques Derrida. In doing so, the writing is often obtuse and not exactly clear in an explanatory manner. It has encouraged me to read Derrida first hand as I was interested by the concepts and quotes derived from Derrida (particularly relating to Of Grammatology). That being said, I don’t think the author does a very good job of making Derrida palatable to first time readers which appears to have been his intention. Being a philosophy student, I know of Derrida and those who he critiques (some in more depth than others). However, I think if someone didn’t have this kind of background knowledge or familiarity with difficult texts they would struggle to understand most paragraphs of this book.

[Rhiannon Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful overview of his key ideas.

[Talya · Rating 2 out of 5]

read for a class

the best I can say about this book is that it was sometimes comprehensible