Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Algeria
2. Paris and ENS
3. After ENS
4. The First Book
5. Against Structuralism
6. 1967
7. Post-Structuralism
8. America: Derrida as Literature
9. Glas
10. Greph
11. Paul de Man
12. Nietzsche and Heidegger
13. The Post Card
14. The 1980s
15. 1987-90: Deconstruction and Germany
16. Autobiographical Years: 1990-91
17. The Future of Democracy: The Very Worst Moment of Capitalism
18. Derrida's World: Confronting Marx
19. The Politics of Friendship
20. Derrida's Religion
21. Thoughtful Welcoming of the Other
22. 2000 Onwards
23. Conclusion: On the Future of Thinking
Bibliography

About the Author

Jason Powell has a PhD in philosophy and is the author of Jacques Derrida: A Biography and Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. He has served with the British Army in Iraq, Bosnia and Kosovo and now works as a freelance writer.

Reviews

'In attempting an intellectual biography of Derrida [Powell] is doing something unique ... He has a good grasp of the ideas circulating around deconstrution, and articulates them in a suitably reader-friendly manner without sacrificing any of their complexity or compromising their integrity.' Dr Karl Simms, Director of Studies, School of English, University of Liverpool
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