Book Description
Jacques Derrida's two Sydney seminars of August 1999 enabled him to present some of the principal themes of his work to non-specialist audiences. As might be expected of a Sydney setting, warmth of feeling and openness of spirit pervaded both occasions. Derrida's willingness to engage with both interlocutors and audiences ensured an exciting demonstration of the subtlety and flexibility of deconstructive thinking in action. This book is reconstructed from the transcripts of those sessions. It provides a clear, systematic and highly accessible introduction to many of the central concerns of Derrida's engagement with philosophy, visual art and politics.
About the author
PAUL PATTON is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. He edited Deleuze: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1996) and is the author of Deleuze and the Political (Routledge, 2000).
TERRY SMITH was Director of the Power Institute from 1994 to 2001. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh. During 2001-02 he is a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
