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Book/Printed Material Going Postcard : the Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida

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Title

  • Going Postcard : the Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida

Summary

  • In 1980, Jacques Derrida published La carte postale: De Socrate a Freud et au-del a. At the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the English translation, Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida revisits this seminal work in Derrida's oeuvre. Derrida himself described The Post Card in his preface as "the remainders of a destroyed correspondence," stretching from 1977 to 1979. A cryptic text, it is riddled with gaps, word plays, and a meandering analysis of the interface between philosophy and psychoanalysis. The contributors who offered the fourteen essays gathered in Going Postcard were each provided with a deceptively simple task: to write a gloss to a fragment from the first part of The Post Card, "Envois." The result is a prismatic array of commentaries, excursions, and interpretations that take Derrida "to the letter." The different glosses on lemmas such as genre, erasure, telepathy, philately, and sperm transport The Post Card into the twenty-first century and offer a "correspondence," if fragmentary, with Derrida's work and the work to come.

Names

  • Gerven Oei, Vincent W. J. van, 1983-

Created / Published

  • Brooklyn, NY : Punctum Books, 2017.

Headings

  • -  Derrida, Jacques--Correspondence
  • -  Deconstruction
  • -  Philosophy and religion

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (website; viewed on 2020-05-29)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • B2430.D484

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020376752

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Gerven Oei, Vincent W. J. Van. Going Postcard: the Letters of Jacques Derrida. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2017. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020376752/.

APA citation style:

Gerven Oei, V. W. J. V. (2017) Going Postcard: the Letters of Jacques Derrida. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020376752/.

MLA citation style:

Gerven Oei, Vincent W. J. Van. Going Postcard: the Letters of Jacques Derrida. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2017. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020376752/>.