Name: How to Read Derrida
ISBN: 9780393328790

Penelope Deutscher

Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.

How to Read Derrida

Donald

I have read some late Derrida, so I picked up this book to help me with his early work on language, writing, and speech, which I have always been hesitant to approach at all. This book was helpful in giving me more footing to begin from, but the examples used to explain Derrida were really uninteresting (for example, using gay marriage to discuss Derrida's approach to law and justice).

Deutscher writes clearly but without the energy or enthusiasm that made 'How to Read Wittgenstein' so much fun.