Dissemination Paperback Jacques. Derrida

The «Dissemination Paperback Jacques. Derrida» is a scholarly and professional work of literary criticism and philosophy, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1983. The book, with a subject area encompassing movements like deconstruction, European French history and surveys, and logic, delves into the central contention of author Jacques Derrida that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, and the risk of unmeaning. This complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes, and allusions is intended to deconstruct both the pretensions of criticism and philosophy to tell the truth about literature and the literature of truth. With a length of 8.9 inches, a height of 1.1 inches, and a weight of 21 ounces, this trade paperback features 400 pages in English language.

Dissemination – Jacques Derrida

«The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives–against the grain of language–to offer a sober revelation of truth. Literature–on the other hand–flaunts its own meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In Dissemination –more than any previous work–Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to ‘deconstruct’ both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth.»–Peter Dews, New Statesman