{"product_id":"positions-9780226143316","title":"Positions","description":"Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDissemination\u003c\/i\u003e. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the two major preoccupations of French intellectual life, Marxism and psychoanalysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The interviews included in this volume offer a multifaceted view of Derrida. \"Implications: Interview with Henri Ronse\" contains a succinct statement of principles. \"Seminology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva\" provides important clarifications of the role played by linguistics in Derrida's work. \"Positions: Interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta\" is a wide-ranging discussion that touches on many of the polemics that Derrida's work has provoked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alan Bass, whose translation of \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e was highly praised for its clarity, accuracy, and readability, has provided extremely useful critical notes, full of vital information, including historical background.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His books \u003ci\u003eThe Truth in Painting; The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond; Writing and Difference; Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles\/ Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche; Dissemination; Margins of Philosophy of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGiven Time: I. Counterfeit Money\u003c\/i\u003e are published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Bass\u003c\/b\u003e received his Ph. D. from the John Hopkins University and then went on to psychoanalytic training in New York City, where he is now a practicing analyst. He has published and lectured on both deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory and practice. He is the translator of Derrida's \u003ci\u003eThe Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Writing and Difference, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMargins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893943963922,"sku":"9780226143316","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_21cb28ae-085b-4a14-ba8b-b86b1e5845fe.jpg?v=1738242565","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/positions-9780226143316","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}