Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery (Critical Inventions)
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- Synopsis
- Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Murder, he thought. And so I shall investigate, and begin with a sign that the philosopher says he left within a book from the thirteenth century, a strange fortune-telling book that he had found in the oldest part of Oxford's Bodleian Library. In the book are a host of cryptic questions, but the philosopher directs us to one in particular, a peculiar question about a boy, and the question is this: Does the boy live? The philosopher will not, though, give the answer; he requires, instead, that we go to Oxford to open the book for ourselves.
- Copyright:
- 2007
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 211 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781836242147
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781845190316, 9781836241164, 9781845190309
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 08/15/24
- Copyrighted By:
- John Schad
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.