Psyche Inventions of the Other, Volume II [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. Advancing his reflection on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion, Volume II also carries on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: De Certeau, Heidegger, Kant, Lacoue-Labarthe, Mandela, Rosenszweig, and Shakespeare, among others. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, Geschlecht I: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference, Geschlecht II: Heidegger's Hand, How to Avoid Speaking: Denials, and Interpretations at War: Kant, the Jew, the German ). This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence,Psycheis among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought. 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 arePaper Machine(2005),On TouchingJean-Luc Nancy(2005),Rogues(2005),Eyes of the University(2004),For What Tomorrow...with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004),Counterpathwith Catherine Malabou (2004),Negotiations(2002),Who's Afraid of Philosophy?(2002), andWl­