Writing and Difference
Decide its fate
The record
Time
An eveningA season446 pages, about 9 hours: the length of 1.4 typical books on the shelf.
Getting in
Walk right inSteep climbOne reader reports frustration in the book’s opening essay, a close response to Jean Rousset’s study of literary form.
What it gives
Plot and actionIdeas to live byIn 12 reviews from critics and book blogs, none credit the plot and 12 credit the ideas or a change in how they live.
One of a kind
Others do thisNothing else doesA reader compares Derrida’s approach in this essay to Philosophical Investigations-era Wittgenstein, on the shelf at 329 pages.
The case for it
on Structure, Sign, and Play
“I had the pleasure to reread Derrida’s ‘Structure Sign and Play’”
a book blog on Structure, Sign, and Play
“it being one of the more perspicuous pieces from Derrida”
a book blog on the Foucault critique
“I was struck by the humility with which Derrida showed to take on Foucault”
a book blog on the Lévi-Strauss reading
“What is so wonderful about ‘Structure, Sign and Play’ is that JD uses Lévi-Strauss”
a book blog
The case against
on the Artaud essay
“this discussion deals with specific aspects of Artaud’s work that I am not familiar with”
a book blog on Structure, Sign, and Play
“I just couldn’t get more than a few sentences into it before losing patience”
a book blog on Violence and Metaphysics
“wonders about the bald claim that Being is the ‘only’ way to put into question”
Peter Leithart · Theopolis Institute, 2012 on Force and Signification
“I’ve always been frustrated trying to read Derrida’s paper without one”
a book blog
