Between Deleuze and Derrida

by John Protevi (Editor), Paul Patton (Editor)

Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compares their work. This is done via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Mathematics. Eric Alliez, Branka Arsic, Gregg Lambert, Leonard Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, Tamsin Lorraine, Jeff Nealon, Paul Patton, Arkady Plotnitsky, John Protevi, Daniel W. Smith

Genres: Philosophy

Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

John Protevi is Professor of French Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. His research focuses on the intersections of dynamical systems theory; the cognitive, life, and earth sciences; and contemporary French philosophy.

Reviews

[Emma Sea · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this for the chapter by Eric Alliez on Ontology and Logography: The Pharmacy, Plato and the Simulacrum. And you know what? Fuck it. I'm just not smart enough to understand it. Nup. Nope. No. I tried.

Luckily I did find the following section by Gregg Lambert to be like a warm cuddle after my Alliez-failure. He points out that Deleuze said "[w]e write[read] only at the frontiers of our knowledge, at the border which separates our knowledge from our ignorance and transforms one into the other". Lambert says, "[a]ll the old reference points are gone (or, at least, strangely dislocated)". That is me and Alliez in a nutshell.