Books by Catherine Clément
“I put this in to show some of the wider effects of deconstruction. One of the things I was pleased to discover when I was writing my biography of Derrida was that he did try and learn from the lessons of feminism or feminisms. Cixous was very close to him in lots of ways. He actually said that, for him, Cixous was the best French writer of the late 20th century. They were both Algerian, and they had an incredible solidarity. They did a lot of books together as dialogue. She was almost as prolific as him. And, in many ways, she’s even more rebarbative with some of her stuff, if you’re not used to reading these things.” Read more...
The best books on Deconstruction
Peter Salmon, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Catherine Clément were recommended
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Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida & translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
by Mikhail Bakhtin & translated by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson -
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Jacques Derrida Circumfession
by Geoffrey Bennington & Jacques Derrida -
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The Newly Born Woman
by Catherine Clément, Hélène Cixous & translated by Betsy Wing -
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"53 Days"
by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
The best books on Deconstruction, recommended by Peter Salmon
The best books on Deconstruction, recommended by Peter Salmon
For the general reader deconstruction has a bad reputation. It is seen as over-complicating, arcane and wilfully obscure—but as its founding genius Jacques Derrida pointed out, “If things were simple, word would have gotten around.” Here Peter Salmon, author of an excellent new biography of Derrida, chooses five books to get you started on the text and everything inside it.
