Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Contributors: Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780231128247
Subjects: Biography: general; Jewish Studies; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Religion; Biography / Autobiography; French; History & Surveys - General; Philosophers; Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction; General; Derrida, Jacques; Identity; Jews
First sentence: "of the sex, of the heart, this male inauguration of memory by a bite mark-this primo-ablation of the cock's comb, this de-coronation, this prenatal toss of the dice, later vital and then already posthumous and after, but if I were Jewish I say to myself it"