'I have often declared my admiration for Helene
Cixous, for the person and for the work: immense,
powerful, so multiple but unique in this century.' -
Jacques Derrida 'Insister of Jacques Derrida, so
expertly translated by Derrida's principal and most
faithful translator, Peggy Kamuf, is an indispensable,
daring, heartfelt and moving book...It presents a
flawless, committed reading that is in the spirit of
Derrida in its serious playfulness, its poetic
sinuousness, its elegant reasoning and rhetoric while
also being wholly in Cixous' own singular voice. This is
not merely a study of Derrida, it is a haunting dialogue
with his memory and with his phantom.' - Julian
Wolfreys, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture,
Loughborough University Helene Cixous is arguably the
most insightful and unbridled reader of Jacques Derrida
today. In Insister she brings a unique mixture of
theoretical speculation, breath-taking textual
explication and scholarly erudition to an extremely
close reading of Derrida's work, always attentive to the
details of his thinking.At the same time, Insister is an
extraordinarily poetic meditation, a work of literature
and of mourning for Jacques Derrida the person, who was
a close friend and accomplice of Cixous's from the
beginning of their careers. Insister of Jacques Derrida
joins Dream I Tell You by Helene Cixous and Geneses,
Genealogies, Genres and Genius by Jacques Derrida, also
published in The Frontiers of Theory series. |
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