Introduction
Chronology of Derrida's Life and Works
A-Z Dictionary Guide to Further Reading List of entries
An A to Z guide to the work and thought of one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century.
Simon Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University London, UK.
"Simon Morgan Wortham's Derrida Dictionary is a spectacular
intellectual accomplishment. He has amazing mastery of all
Derrida's multitudinous writings (about seventy books, an immense
number of articles and interviews). Perhaps the highest praise I
can make of this extraordinary and extraordinarily valuable book is
that each entry, rather than closing the door on a given Derridean
topic, makes you want to go back and read or reread for yourself
Archive Fever or Paper Machine or Without Alibi, and all the rest
of those seventy books." - J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California,
Irvine, USA, author of For Derrida (Fordham, 2009)
"This is no ordinary dictionary. Simon Morgan Wortham provides not
only comprehensive, rigorously defined, and well-contextualised
terms that cross-reference other terms and books across the corpus
of Derrida's work, but in the process offers a lucid exposition of
Derrida's work itself." - Nicole Anderson, Co-Editor/Founder
Derrida Today journal, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
"Simon Morgan Wortham's dictionary is much more than a dictionary;
it is, above all, a remarkable collection of short essays on
Derrida's major works and concepts that will serve as valuable
introductions to newcomers and useful reminders to those already
familiar with Derrida's writings. Doing full justice to all periods
and areas of Derrida's work, it succeeds in showing both his
extraordinary range and the connections and continuities that link
his various ventures in thought." - Derek Attridge, University of
York, UK
'Simon Morgan Wortham's Dictionary is an indispensable tool for
anyone entering or continuing to work in theory. For those of us
who have been doing so for some time, the Dictionary serves as a
reminder of how timely Derrida's work was and is: a Derrida
Dictionary for today and very much for tomorrow.' -- Derrida
Today
*Stephen Barker*
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