Glas, Jacques Derrida; Philosopher, English Translation 1986 ISBN 0-8032-1667-X

Description: The condition of this unique book is better on the inside than on the outside. Though the paper cover is worn and the hard cover stained there are very few marks inside made with a very light pencil. This unique coveted hard cover book by the infamous French Philosopher, Jacques Derrida, titled "GLAS,"was published in 1986 by University of Nebraska Press. The original French version was published in 1974. The book was translated into English by John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand. Though it is difficult to define--the genre of the book is philosophy and the topic of the book is literary criticism or vice versa. "Glas is my opinion Derrida's masterwork so far, the work of broadest scope and implication both as exemplification of his own methodology of reading and of his central philosophical and literary concerns. The work is difficult and challenging even for a fluent reader of French, and making available in English an authoritative translation is a major scholarly achievement."--J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine. "Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available the first English translation of his most important work to date, Glas. A complex and controversial book, Glas extensively reworks the problems of reading and writing in philosophy and literature; questions the possibility of linear reading and its consequent notions of theme, author, narrative, and discursive demonstration; and ingeniously disrupts the positions of reader and writer in the test." Glas is extraordinary in many ways, most obviously in its typography. Arranges in two columns, with inserted sections within these, the book simultaneously discusses Hegel's philosophy and Jean Genet's fiction, and shows how two such seemingly distinct kinds of criticism can reflect and influence one another."

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