Positions (book)
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| Author | Jacques Derrida |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Philosophy |
| Published | 1972 |
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Positions is a 1972 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Summary
Positions consists of a collection of interviews. Derrida talks about his earlier works and their relationships. He said that his 1962 essay, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, already contained many elements of his thought, that would be further elaborated. He added: "that essay can be read as the other side (recto or verso, as you wish) of Speech and Phenomena."[1]
On the relationship between his three foundational works of 1967, Derrida explained: " Speech and Phenomena is perhaps the essay which I like most. Doubtless I could have bound it as a long note to one or the other of the other two works. Husserl's transcendental phenomenology."[2]
Contents
- «Implications. Entretien avec Henri Ronse», pp. 9–24; 9–23 [cfr. b 1967(d)]
- «Sémiologie et grammatologie. Entretien avec Julia Kristeva», pp. 25–50; 25–46 [cfr. b 1968(d)]
- «Positions. Entretien avec Jean-Louis Houdebine et Guy Scarpetta», pp. 51–133; 47–117 [cfr. b 1971(a)]
- «Aver l'orecchio per la filosofia. Colloquio con Lucette Finas», pp. 119–135 (nella sola ed. it.) [cfr. b 1972(b)]
Editions
- [French original] 1972 Positions, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris
- [English] 1981 Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press)