{"product_id":"writing-and-difference-9780226143293","title":"Writing and Difference","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1967  Writing and Difference  a collection of Jacques Derridas essays written between 1959 and 1966  has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The books first half  which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault  shows the development of Derridas method of deconstruction. In these essays  Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thoughtone of his main targets being the way in which \"structuralism\" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models.  The second half of the book contains some of Derridas most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language  finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud  Freud  Bataille  Hegel  and Lvi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derridas notions of writing and diffrencethe untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical \"concept\" that does not exclude writingfor almost a generation of students of literature  philosophy  and psychoanalysis.  Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program  Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking  reading  and writing new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkerschallenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45495996645429,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226143295","price":35.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226143293.jpg?v=1780905680","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/writing-and-difference-9780226143293","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}