Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction

by Michael Naas

Book Overview

Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. It concentrates not only on such themes in the work of Derrida but also on his own gestures with regard to these themes--that is, on the performativity of Derrida's texts. The book thus uses Derrida's understanding of speech act theory to reread...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080474422X
• ISBN13: 9780804744225
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"