Jacques Derrida (Routledge Revivals)

An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography

William Schultz,Lewis L.B. Fried

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781315470238
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Philosophy
• Categoria: Philosophy History & Theory

First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida's work and scholarship about his work. It attempts to be comprehensive rather than selective, listing primary and secondary works from the year of Derrida's Master's thesis in 1954 up until 1991, and is extensively annotated. It arranges under article type a huge number of works from scholars across numerous fields — reflecting the interdisciplinary and controversial nature of Deconstruction. The substantial introduction and annotations also make this bibliography, in part, a critical guide and as such will make a highly useful reference tool for those studying his philosophy.

Secondary Sources

Chapter E:
Books and Contributions to Books

Entire Books

English Books

E1 Abrams, M.H., and James Ackerman. Theories of Criticism: Essays in Literature and Art. Washington: Library of Congress, 1984.

Charts the rise of the influence of JD’s philosophy, which it is claimed is characterized by an “interpretive skepticism that denies the decideability of meaning in literary texts” (18) on American literary theory and criticism. Goes on to offer a summary of JD’s reading practice and examines some of its appropriations by the Yale School critics.

E2 Abrams, M.H. Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.

While all of the material here is reprinted from other sources, a useful compendium because it covers the reactions of one of America’s foremost critics to the rise and dissemination of JD’s work in America.

E3 Adams, Hazard. Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic. Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1983.

Critiques JD, who is termed a “philosophical ironist,” for having taken the romantic “disillusionment with language” to its “reductio ad absurdum.” Also quickly reviews JD’s influence on American literary theory, as well as outlining Ricoeur’s critique of JD in Rule of Metaphor.

E4 Agacinski, Sylviane. Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Soren Kierkegaard. Trans. Kevin Newmark. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1988.

Discusses JD’s notions of dissemination and representation as presented in Diss in relation to Kierkegaard’s Repetition.

E5 Agger, Ben. Socio(onto)logv: A Disciplinary Reading. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Multitudinous mentions, though no extended commentary or interpretation of JD in the context of a critique of “American positivist sociology.” Somewhat critical of what he views as JD’s pessimism, nonetheless finds him useful for his critiques of logocentrism.

E6 Agger, Ben. The Decline of Discourse: Reading. Writing, and Resistance in Postmodern Capitalism. New York: Falmer Press, 1990.

Many peripheral and for the most part negative mentions of JD in the course of examining the “status of theory in the [public] world.”

E7 Aichele, George Jr. The Limits of Story. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.

Places JD’s writings especially on genre, metaphor, différance in the context of a Christian oriented narratology, including some useful summaries of various theologically based critics’ positions on JD.

E8 Altieri, Charles. Act and Quality. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.

Measured and self-conscious exposition and critique of JD on “meaning and the assessment of utterances.” Examines JD’s textual “performances,” especially his critiques of Searle and Austin. Goes on to read Wittgenstein’s later writings with and against JD, and taking issue with JD on iterability and the “human agent,” taking his positions on these topics as a sign of his “blindness as a philosopher.”

E9 Applewhite, James. Seas and Inland Journeys: Landscape and Consciousness from Wordsworth to Roethke. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Brief discussion of JD’s critique of the idea of origins and their relation to “linguistic consciousness,” as well as a quick discussion of “Freud and the Scene of Writing.”

E10 Arac, Jonathan. Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Numerous scattered references to JD which contain very little substantial analysis but are extremely useful for understanding JD’s influence on American literary criticism and theory.

E11 Argyros, Alex. Crimes of Narration: Camus’ ‘La chute’. Toronto: Paratexte, 1985.

Heavily influenced by JD, as the various mentions and long, explanatory footnotes indicate; however, there is little direct analysis of JD.

E12 Atkins, G. Douglas. Quests of Difference: Reading Pope’s Poems. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 1986.

The introduction offers a reductively brief exposition of différance and the supplement, and other chapters focusing on literary criticism, Hillis Miller, and a critique of Leitch’s “Lateral Dance,” generally defend JD from various critiques and draw heavily and somewhat mechanically on Derridean insights and terms.

E13 Atkins, G. Douglas. Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

First five chapters, four of which are reprinted from other sources, examine the interstices between JD, the Yale School, and various aspects of theological interpretation.

E14 Attridge, Derek. Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce. London: Methuen, 1988.

“Language as History/History as Language” briefly recounts JD’s twofold critique of Saussure in Gram, and discusses JD’s use of etymology. Strongly informed by JD, as a footnote in the introduction suggests: “My own engagements with specific texts owe more, I believe, to the example of Jacques Derrida than to any other writer.” Includes numerous references to JD and a wide variety of his texts, though has little sustained analysis.

E15 Bannet, Eve Tavor. Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

One long chapter provides a substantial exposition of the main thrust of JD’s work up to Schibboleth. A second chapter contextualizes JD’s philosophical views with those of Lacan, Barthes, and Foucault, viewing each of them from the perspective of dissenting structuralists.

E16 Barnes, Annette. On Interpretation: A Critical Analysis. Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1988.

Rather confusing exposition-cum-critique of the question of “the freeplay of signification” in JD’s work. Skips around JD’s texts extracting fragments seemingly at random, and then concludes that “Derrida is [not] right in thinking that the age of the metaphysics of presence will come to an end” (105).

E17 Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. “The Precession of Simulacra” has been translated from the French original by Paul Foss and Paul Patton. The second half of the book, “The Orders of Simulacra,” was translated by Philip Beitchman. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.

While there are no references to JD, the book is itself a critique of JD’s position. In Baudrillard’s For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign [pages 156 and 160] Baudrillard states a criticism of JD’s supplement and posits instead an idea of simulation. On pages 35 and 147 of Simulations Lyotard is referred to; perhaps the criticism by Baudrillard originates in the work of Lyotard, for Baudrillard’s orientation is much like that of Lyotard. It should be noted that in Pos, JD describes the supplement and other philosophical concepts as “unities of simulacrum,” and that Baudrillard begins his epistemology with simulacra. See the annotation for the work below; namely, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign by Baudrillard.

E18 Baudrillard, Jean. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign. Trans. with an Introduction by Charles Levin. Telos Press: St. Louis, 1981.

Although JD is only mentioned on 2 pages in passing references in which his work is identified with the overall project of Tel Quel there seems to be a well-pointed criticism contained within a few paragraphs. For example, “Any basis for a crucial interrogation of the sign must be situated from the perspective of what it expels and annihilates in its very institution, in the respective emergence and structural assignation of the Sr [Signifier] and the Sd [Signified]. The process of signification is, at bottom, nothing but a gigantic simulation model of meaning [Simulations is the title of another work-metaphysical, not political]. Clearly, neither the real, the referent, nor some substance of value banished to the exterior shadow of the sign can abolish this process. It is the symbolic that continues to haunt the sign, nor in its total exclusion it never ceases to dismantle the formal correlation of Sr and Sd [160-61]”.

E19 Battaglia, Rosemarie Angela. Presence and Absence in Joyce, Heidegger. Derrida. Freud. Albany: State University of New York, 1985.

E20 Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London: Methuen, 1980.

Various brief, contextualizing mentions of JD in relation to post-Saussurean linguistics and the evolution of the contemporary state of criticism.

E21 Bennington, Geoffrey. Sententiousness and the Novel: Laying Down the Law in Eighteenth-century French Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Numerous mentions of JD, as well as copious references and discussions in “Notes,” though very little extended analysis.

Note: Bennington, Geoffrey and Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida. Paris: Seuil, 1991. Although this is in French, it is included here because of its importance. For the annotation see A21.

E22 Benoist, Jean Marie. The Structural Revolution. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978.

Brief but veracious overview of the roots and general thrust of JD’s “grammatology,” which is described as linking together “phenomenology and structuralism,” if only to bind them “under the common accusation of being still caught up in the matrix of Western metaphysics.”

E23 Bensmaïa, Réda. The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflective Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Brief citation of “The Deaths of Roland Barthes.”

E24 Bergonzi, Bernard. Exploding English: Criticism, Theory, Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.

Useful if somewhat cursory chapter tracing how JD’s reputation has come to be made in England and Ame...

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• List of Abbreviations
• PRIMARY SOURCES
• SECONDARY SOURCES
• AUTHOR INDEX
• NAME INDEX