Encountering Derrida

<p><em>Encountering Derrida </em>explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers past and present in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. The book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language poetry philosophy institutions difference and the future. </p><br/><p>This impressive collection of essays from the world's leading Derrida scholars re-evaluates Derrida's legacy and looks forward to the possible futures of deconstruction by confronting various challenges to Derrida's thought. Collectively the essays argue that Derrida must be read alongside <em>others</em> an approach that produces some surprising new accounts of this challenging critical thinker. </p><br/> <br/><p> </p><em></em>