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

Christopher Norris is a British philosopher, literary critic, and scholar of deconstruction known for work on Jacques Derrida, continental philosophy, literary theory, and philosophy of science. After completing a doctorate in English at University College London, he pursued criticism and academic teaching before joining Cardiff University in 1991. He later became Distinguished Research Professor in the Cardiff School of English, Communication and Philosophy. Norris has also held visiting appointments at Berkeley, Dartmouth College, Aarhus University, and the City University of New York.

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