1: A picture of Derrida
2: Misunderestimating Derrida
3: Reading the logocentric heritage
4: The rehabiliation of writing
5: Law and justice
6: Politics and friendship
7: The ends of man
8: Starting over
References
Further Reading
Index
Simon Glendinning is a Reader in European Philosophy in the
European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political
Science. He is the author of On Being with Others:
Heidegger-Derrida-Wittgenstein (Routledge, 1998), The Idea of
Continental Philosophy (EUP, 2006) and In the Name of Phenomenology
(Routledge, 2007). He is also the editor of The Edinburgh
Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy (EUP, 1999), Arguing
with Derrida (Blackwells, 2001), and (with Robert Eaglestone)
Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy (Routledge, 2008). He
has contributed essays to numerous books and journals and is
currently working on topics in the philosophy of
Europe.
Glendinning's overview is accurate and informed
*Times Literary Supplement*
it's very short, and certainly worth reading
*New Statesman*
Glendinnings book is dense and fast-paced; although extensive
philosophical knowledge is not assumed, its readers are required to
assimilate complex ideas at quite some speed and this in itself
will be enough to deter some. However, Glendinnings implied reader
is perhaps not the philosophical novice, rather the curious student
or scholar made wary by Derridas reputation and the hostility of
the tradition. In this case, Glendinnings clarity and rigour, his
commitment to careful reading, and his skilful mediation between
Derridas voluminous back-catalogue and the inexperienced reader
will be sufficient to engage and stimulate new readers and new
readings of Derridas work.
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