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BL
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635387
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Naas, Michael.
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| Title & Author
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Taking on the tradition : : Jacques Derrida and the legacies of deconstruction /\ Michael Naas.
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Cultural memory in the present
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xxx, 211 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0804744211 (alk. paper)
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: 9780804744218 (alk. paper)
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: 080474422X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780804744225 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-211).
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| Contents
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A given take : the platonic reception of Plato in the pharmacy -- Given time for a detour : the abyssal gift of Khora -- Stumping the sun : the odyssey of metaphor in "white mythology" -- Derrida's watch/Foucault's pendulum : a final impetus to the cogito debate -- Lacunae : divining Derrida's sources through "telepathy" -- The phenomenon in question : violence, metaphysics, and the Levinasian third -- Better believing it : translating skepticism in memoirs of the blind -- Just a turn away : apostrophe and the politics of friendship -- Hospitality as an open question : deconstruction's welcome politics -- Passing on the mantle : Elijah's Glas and the second coming of Dr. John Alexander Dowie.
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| Abstract
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In this volume the author focuses on how the work of Derrida has helped rework the themes of tradition, legacy and inheritance in Western philosophy. It includes readings of Derrida's texts that demonstrate the claims he makes cannot be understood without considering the way in which he makes those claims.
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Derrida, Jacques.
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| LC Classification
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B2430.D484N33 2003
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