Cultural Graphology: Writing After Derrida -

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University of Chicago Press. Hardcover in jacket. Crisp and clean condition, like new. . Fine. Hardcover. 2016.

University of Chicago Press, 2016-09-12. Hardcover. Used: Good.

University of Chicago Press, September 2016. Hardcover. Used - Like New.

Hardback. New. "Cultural Graphology" could be the name of a new human science: this was Derrida's speculation when, in the late 1960s, he imagined a discipline that combined psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and a commitment to the topic of writing. He never undertook the project himself, but he did leave two brief sketches of how he thought cultural graphology might proceed. In this book, Juliet Fleming picks up where Derrida left off. Using his early thought and the psychoanalytic texts to which it is addressed to examine the print culture of early modern England, she drastically unsettles our knowledge of the key vehicle of modern writing: the book. Fleming shows that the single most important lesson to survive from Derrida's early work is that we do not know what writing is. Channeling Derrida's thought into places it has not been seen before, she takes on topics such as errors, spaces, and print ornaments that have hitherto been marginal to our accounts of print… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 176 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.