{"product_id":"essential-history-joshua-kates-9780810123274","title":"Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction","description":"However widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a \"foundational\" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy, or rather the most radical of skeptics? Are language-related themes--writing, semiosis--his central concern, or does he really write about something else? And does his thought form a system of its own, or does it primarily consist of commentaries on individual texts? This book seeks to address these questions by returning to what it claims is essential history: the development of Derrida's core thought through his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Joshua Kates recasts what has come to be known as the Derrida\/Husserl debate, by approaching Derrida's thought historically, through its development. Based on this developmental work, \u003ci\u003e Essential History \u003c\/i\u003eculminates by offering discrete interpretations of Derrida's two book-length 1967 texts, interpretations that elucidate the until now largely opaque relation of Derrida's interest in language to his focus on philosophical concerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fundamental reinterpretation of Derrida's project and the works for which he is best known, Kates's study fashions a new manner of working with the French thinker that respects the radical singularity of his thought as well as the often different aims of those he reads. Such a view is in fact \"essential\" if Derrida studies are to remain a vital field of scholarly inquiry, and if the humanities, more generally, are to have access to a replenishing source of living theoretical concerns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Kates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810123274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810123274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.68w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 1837","brand":"Joshua Kates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44716121227519,"sku":"9780810123274","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28637e21-c37a-49ab-a1e9-576785d2a484.jpg?v=1705681151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/essential-history-joshua-kates-9780810123274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}