Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; 1930–2004) was a French philosopher, known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.

Works

Arbitrary selection

• L'écriture et la différence, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1967 [1].
• De la grammatologie, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1967.
• Marges de la philosophie, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1972.
• "Becoming Woman", trans. Barbara Harlow, in Semiotext(e) Vol. 3, No. 1: "Nietzsche’s Return", 1978, pp 128-137. Excerpted from Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles, 1976.
• Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass, The University of Chicago, 1978; reprint, London: Routledge, 2001.
• with Marie-Françoise Plissart, Droit de regards, Minuit, 1985.
• Du droit à la philososphie, Paris: Galilée, 1990.
• Donner le temps. 1. la fausse monnaie, Paris: Galilée, 1991.
• Points de suspension. Entretiens, Paris: Galilée, 1992.
• Acts of Literature (editor Derek Attridge), New York: Routledge, 1992.
• Spectres de Marx. L'État de la dette, le travail du deuil et la nouvelle Internationale, Paris: Galilée, 1993.
• Specters of Marx. The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, trans. Peggy Kamuf, Routledge, [1993], 1994, 198 pp.
• Politiques de l’amitié, Paris: Galilée, 1994.
• Résistances de la psychanalize, Paris, Galilée, 1996.
• Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, trans. Eric Prenowitz, University of Chicago Press, 1996, 113 pp.
• Le Monolinguisme de l'autre, Paris: Galilée, 1996.
• Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas, Paris: Galilée, 1997.
• Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-François Bonhomme, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, New York, [1996], 2010.
• The Work of Mourning, ed. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 2001.
• with Bernard Stiegler, Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews, trans. Jennifer Bajorek, Polity Press, 2002, 174 pp.
• with Catherine Malabou, Counterpath: Traveling with Jacques Derrida, Stanford University Press, 2004, 330 pp.

On Joyce (and technology)

• Ulysse gramophone. Deux mots pour Joyce, Paris: Galilée, 1987, 142 pp. (in French). "Deux mots pour Joyce" was first given as a talk at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, in November 1982. "Ulysse gramophone" was first delivered as the opening address at the Ninth International James Joyce Symposium in Frankfurt am Main in 1984.
  • Ulysses Grammophon, Brinkmann & Bose, 1988. (in German)
  • "Two Words for Joyce", trans. Geoffrey Bennington, in Post- Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French, eds. Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp 145-159; repr. in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote, SUNY Press, 2013, (Introduction).
  • "Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce", trans. Tina Kendall, in Derrida, Acts of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge, Routledge, 1992, pp 253-309; trans. François Raffoul, in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, eds. Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote, SUNY Press, 2013.

Bibliography

• on Wikipedia
• on Stanford Encyclopedia
• in Spanish and French

Literature

• François Dosse, History of Structuralism, 2 vols., 1991–
• Christoph Menke, The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida, trans. Neil Solomon, MIT Press, 1999, 310 pp.
• Mario Vergani, Jacques Derrida, Milan: Paravia Bruno Mondadori Editori, 2000, 218 pp.
• Leslie Hill, The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• François Cusset, French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States, 2003/2008
• Peter Sloterdijk, Derrida, an Egyptian: On the Problem of the Jewish Pyramid, trans. Wieland Hoban, Polity, [2006], 2009.
• David Mikics, Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography, 2009 [2].
• Simon Skempton, Alienation After Derrida, London: Continuum, 2010 [3] [4].
• Claire Colebrook, Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts', London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

Documentary

• Memoires d'aveugle (Jacques Derrida) / Notes about the blind men (Jacques Derrida), directed: Jean-Paul Farge, 1991

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/