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Derrida, Jacques (1930–2004)

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List of works

  • Derrida, J. (1962) ‘Introduction’, in E. Husserl, L’Origine de la géometrie, trans. J. Derrida; trans. D. Allison, Edmund Husserl’s ‘Origin of Geometry’: An Introduction, Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1978. (

    Critique of the value of univocity in Husserl’s account of ideality.)

  • Derrida, J. (1967a) La Voix et le phénomène, trans. D. Allison, Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973. (

    Argues that the indicative, or written, element of language cannot be reduced in Husserl’s account of meaning.)

  • Derrida, J. (1967b) De la grammatologie, trans. G. Spivak, Of Grammatology, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1974. (

    Shows that the history of philosophy has been governed by a privileging of speech over writing.)

  • Derrida, J. (1967c) L’Écriture et la différence, trans. A. Bass, Writing and Difference, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978. (

    Includes the important essay, ‘De l’économie restreinte à l’économie générale: un hégélianisme sans réserve’ (From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism Without Reserve) as well as essays on Foucault and Levinas.)

  • Derrida, J. (1972) Marges – de la Philosophie, Paris: Éditions de Minuit; trans. A. Bass, Margins of Philosophy, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982. (

    Includes ‘Le Puits et la pyramide: introduction à la sémiologie de Hegel’ (The Pit and the Pyramid: Introduction to Hegel’s Semiology) in which he discusses Hegel’s theory of signs, and essays on Heidegger and other philosophers.)

  • Derrida, J. (1974) Glas, Paris: Éditions Galilée; trans. J. Leavey and R. Rand, Glas, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.(

    Difficult but richly textured readings of Hegel and Genet.)

  • Derrida, J. (1978) Éperons: les styles de Nietzsche; trans. B. Harlow, Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979. (

    A short, and in some ways exemplary, deconstructive reading of Nietzsche.)

  • Derrida, J. (1987) De l’esprit: Heidegger et la question; trans. G. Bennington and R. Bowlby, Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989. (

    Examines the use of the German term Geist and its derivatives in Heidegger.)

  • Derrida, J. (1992) ‘Force of Law: The "Mystical Foundation of Authority"’, in D. Cornell, M. Rosenfeld and D.G. Carlson (eds) Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, New York: Routledge. (

    Widely cited essay in which Derrida distinguishes between justice and law.)

  • Derrida, J. (1993) Spectres de Marx; trans. P. Kamuf, Specters of Marx, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. (

    Juxtaposes readings of Hamlet, Heidegger and Marx as a way of conceiving the relationship between justice, mourning, responsibility and spectrality.)

References and further reading

  • Abraham, N. and Torok, M. (1994) The Shell and the Kernel, vol. 1, trans. and ed. N. Rand, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (

    An important collection of essays that have influenced Derrida’s attempt to think together certain phenomenological and psychoanalytic themes.)

  • Cornell, D. (1992) The Philosophy of the Limit, New York: Routledge. (

    An original interpretation of the philosophical implications of deconstruction, emphasizing its relevance to ethics and social theory.)

  • Gasché, R. (1994) Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (

    Essays which examine specific aspects of Derrida’s philosophical problematics in detail.)

  • Harvey, I. (1986) Derrida and the Economy of Différance, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (

    A good account of the relationship between deconstruction and continental philosophy beginning with Kant.)

  • Heidegger, M. (1927) Sein und Zeit, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson, Being and Time, New York: Harper & Row, 1962. (

    Heidegger’s magnum opus, an important touchstone for all his later work.)

  • Heidegger, M. (1946) ‘Der Spruch des Anaximander’, trans. D. Farrell Krell and F. Capuzzi, ‘The Anaximander Fragment’, in Early Greek Thinking, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. (

  • Jameson, F. (1995) ‘Marx’s Purloined Letter’, New Left Review 209. (

    Review essay of Derrida’s Specters of Marx.)

  • Kofman, S. (1984) Lectures de Derrida, Paris: Éditions Galilée. (

    Discusses a number of important themes in Derrida’s writings.)

  • Laclau, E. (1991) New Reflections on the Revolution of our Time, London: Verso. (

    An investigation of deconstruction as articulating a logic of the political.)

  • Mallet, M. (1994) Le Passage des frontières: autour du travail de Jacques Derrida, Paris: Éditions Galilée. (

    A collection of essays presented by various authors at a conference focusing on the work of Derrida.)

  • Sartre, J.-P. (1952) Saint Genet, trans. B. Fechtman, New York: Braziller.

  • Spivak, G. (1993) Outside in the Teaching Machine, New York: Routledge. (

    A unique philosophical statement, but one influenced by the works of Derrida.)

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