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Derrida is one of those annoying geniuses you can take a class on, read half-a-dozen books by and still have no idea what he's talking about. Derrida's 'writing' is definitely confusing (it's like he's pulling the rug out from under the rug that he pulled out from under philosophy). But beneath the confusion, like the heartbeat of a bird in your hand, you can feel Derrida's electric genius. It draws you to it; you want to understand it…but it's so confusing. Jim Powell's Derrida For Beginners is the clearest explanation of Derrida and deconstruction presently available in our solar system. Powell guides us through blindingly obscure texts like Grammatology (Derrida's deconstruction of Saussure, Lévi Strauss, Roussseau), "Différance" (his essay on language and life), Dissemination (his dismantling of Plato, his rap on Mallarmé), along with his other masterpieces.
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Kaye Stinson
reviewed Derrida for Beginners on May 19, 2012
Derrida for Beginners
If you are afraid to read this book because you don't want people to see you reading a "for beginners" book publicly, think about it this way; anybody who doesn't know who Derrida is won't care, and anybody who does know who Derrida is will appreciate any attempt to figure out what the heck he was saying. I'm a big fan of post-structuralism and the writings of Derrida, and I picked up this book for some light reading- but it is definitely not light reading. This is a tough book that you need to devote some time to, because nothing Derrida ever wrote or said was simple in any way. I feel a lot more confident using the work of Derrida with the help of this commentary, and I'll definitely recommend it to future students and classmates.
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