Jacques Derrida (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Nicholas Royle, Linguistics
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JACQUES DERRIDA
‘Excellent, strong, clear and original’.
Jacques Derrida
.
‘A strong, inventive and daring book that does much more than most introductions are
capable of even dreaming’.
Diane Elam, Cardiff University
.
‘Readers couldn’t ask for a more authoritative and knowledgeable guide. Although there
is no playing down of the immensity of the implications of Derrida’s work, Royle’s
direct and often funny mode of address will make it less threatening than it can often
appear to beginners’.
Derek Attridge, University of York
.
In this entertaining and provocative introduction, Royle offers lucid explanations of var-
ious key ideas, including deconstruction, differance and the democracy to come. He also
gives attention, however, to a range of perhaps less obvious topics, such as earthquakes,
animals and animality, ghosts, monstrosity, the poematic, drugs, gifts, secrets, war and
mourning. Derrida is seen as an extraordinarily inventive thinker, as well as a brilliantly
imaginative and often very funny writer. Other critical introductions tend to highlight
the specifically philosophical nature and genealogy of his work. Royle’s book proceeds
in a new and different way, in particular by focusing on the crucial but strange place of
literature in Derrida’s writings. He thus provides an appreciation and understanding
based on detailed reference to Derrida’s texts, interwoven with close readings of liter-
ary works. In doing so, he explores Derrida’s consistent view that deconstruction is a
‘coming-to-terms with literature’. He emphasizes the ways in which ‘literature’, for
Derrida, is indissociably bound up with other concerns, such as philosophy and psycho-
analysis, politics and ethics, responsibility and justice, law and democracy.
Nicholas Royle
is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include
Telepathy and Literature: Essays on the Reading Mind
(1990),
After Derrida
(1995),
The
Uncanny
(2003) and (with Andrew Bennett)
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and
Theory
(1999). He is also the editor of
Deconstructions: A User’s Guide
(2000).
ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL THINKERS
essential guides for literary studies
Series Editor: Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University
of London
Routledge Critical Thinkers
is a series of accessible introductions to key
figures in contemporary critical thought.
With a unique focus on historical and intellectual contexts, each volume
examines a key theorist’s:
• significance
• motivation
• key ideas and their sources
• impact on other thinkers
Concluding with extensively annotated guides to further reading,
Routledge Critical Thinkers
are the literature student’s passport to today’s
most exciting critical thought.
Already available:
Jean Baudrillard
by Richard J. Lane
Maurice Blanchot
by Ullrich Haase and William Large
Judith Butler
by Sara Salih
Gilles Deleuze
by Claire Colebrook
Sigmund Freud
by Pamela Thurschwell
Martin Heidegger
by Timothy Clark
Fredric Jameson
by Adam Roberts
Jean-François Lyotard
by Simon Malpas
Paul de Man
by Martin McQuillan
Paul Ricoeur
by Karl Simms
Edward Said
by Bill Ashcroft and Pal Ahluwalia
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
by Stephen Morton
For further details on this series, see www.literature.routledge.com/rct
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JACQUES DERRIDA
Nicholas Royle
First published 2003
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
© 2003 Nicholas Royle
The right of Nicholas Royle to be identified as the Author of this
Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,
including photocopying and recording, or in any information
storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from
the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Royle, Nicholas, 1957–
Jacques Derrida / Nicholas Royle.
p. cm – (Routledge critical thinkers)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Derrida, Jacques. I. Title. II. Series.
B2430.D484 R69 2003
194–dc21
2002151055
ISBN 0-203-38037-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-38654-X (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0–415–22930–8 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–22931–6 (pbk)
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