Psyche Inventions of the Other, Volume I [Hardcover]

Psyche: Inventions of the Otheris the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others. The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man, Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, Psyche: Invention of the Other, TheRetraitof Metaphor, At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am, Tours de Babel and Racism's Last Word ), as well as three essays that appear here in English for the first time.Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English areH. C. for Life, That Is to Say(2006),Paper Machine(2005),On TouchingJean-Luc Nancy(2005),Rogues(2005), andEyes of the University(2004). All of these have been published by the Stanford University Press. Peggy Kamuf is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Elizabeth Rottenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago.Named one ofArtForum's Best Books of 2007! Psycheoffers a wide-ranging introduction to Derrida's engagement with the ethicopolitical implications of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Here, his meditations on mourning, specularity, memory, performativity, and much else are framed in what he describes as the 'quasi-epistolary situation' of the collected essays. Psyche: Inventions of the Otherbrings together for the first time twenty-eigl#.