Clang
$72.98
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2021
Summary
A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
Jacques Derrida’s famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting wo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816691524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0816691525 |
| Author: | Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington, David Wills |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 732g |
| Series: | Posthumanities |
Critics Review
“Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills’s new translation deserves the highest praise. They have rendered this most Joycean of Derrida’s works with an endless tact and feel for English-an immense feat. Clang renews Glas’s lease on life under this new name, where new readers can now encounter it. How fortunate they are!”-Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine.
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He has translated several books by Derrida and is coeditor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series, as well as author of many books on philosophical, literary, and theoretical topics.
David Wills is professor of French and comparative literature at Brown University. He is the translator of several works by Derrida and author of Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics and Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life, both from Minnesota.
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