{"product_id":"writing-and-difference-9780226502830","title":"Writing and Difference","description":"First published in 1967, \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought-one of his main targets being the way in which \"structuralism\" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and L?vi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and \u003ci\u003ediff?rence\u003c\/i\u003e-the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical \"concept\" that does not exclude writing-for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing, -new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers-challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.\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 and the author of numerous books. Among them, \u003ci\u003eOf Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth in Painting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Post Card\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWriting and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e are publsihed 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePositions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMargins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674749767954,"sku":"9780226502830","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae0628fd-a75e-499a-9267-1f1e5979478d.jpg?v=1733864660","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/writing-and-difference-9780226502830","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}