Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon is an Australian writer living in then UK. His first novel The Coffee Story was a New Statesman book of the year. His biography of Jacques Derrida, An Event Perhaps, was described Prospect magazine as ‘Brilliant … one of the clearest introductions to 20th-century continental philosophy available – a scintillating account of Derrida’s life and thought’ and ‘Thrilling’ in the Times.
Books by Peter Salmon
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
by Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon has written an accessible and interesting biography of Jacques Derrida, the doyen of Deconstructionism. That is quite a feat given the opacity of much of what Derrida wrote.
Interviews with Peter Salmon
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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.
