Acts of Literature

Acts of Literature
Cover of the first edition
Author	Jacques Derrida
Subject	Literature
Published	1991
Media type	Print
Pages	472

Acts of Literature is a 1991 philosophical and literary book based on essays by Jacques Derrida. This book is the first collection of Derrida's essays on Western-culture literary texts. Derek Attridge edited the book in close association with Derrida himself.

Summary

Derrida discusses authors such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and Franz Kafka.

Influence

A part highly cited by scholars is the chapter dedicated to James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’ Gramophone: Hear Say Yes In Joyce. (pp. 253–309).

Editions

1st edition published by Routledge, November 20, 1991. ISBN 978-0-415-90057-7.

References

Review by Nick Groom (1995) The Modern Language Review, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1995), pp. 726–728 doi:10.2307/3734331
Review by Wheeler, Kathleen M. Journal of European Studies, September, 1993
Burns, Christy (1999) Joyce's significance for Derrida Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
Roughley, ALAN (1999) Reading Derrida Reading Joyce (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999), p. 176

Jacques Derrida

Interviews collections	Positions (1972) The Rhetoric of Drugs (1989) Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994 (1995) Paper Machine (2001)

Essays	Early The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy (1953) Introduction to Husserl's The Origin of Geometry (1962) "Cogito and the History of Madness" (1963) 1967 Of Grammatology Speech and Phenomena Writing and Difference 1968–72 Plato's Pharmacy (1968) Dissemination (1972) Margins of Philosophy (1972) 1973–8 The Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac (1973) Glas (1974) Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (1978) The Truth in Painting (1978) 1980–8 The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (1980) The Ear of the Other (1982) Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy (1983) Ulysses Gramophone (1984) Two Words for Joyce (1984) Signeponge-Signsponge (1984) Memoires for Paul de Man (1986) Of Spirit (1987) Psyche: Inventions of the Other (Vol. I, 1987) Cinders (1987) Choral Work (1988) Limited Inc. (1988) 1990s Right to Philosophy (1990) The Other Heading (1991) Acts of Literature (1991) Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money (1991) The Gift of Death (1992) Specters of Marx (1993) Archive Fever (1995) The Right to Philosophy from the Cosmopolitical Point of View (1997) 2000s Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (2002)

Concepts	Deconstruction Différance Phallogocentrism Phonocentrism Logocentrism Metaphysics of presence

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