{"product_id":"clang-by-jacques-derrida","title":"'Clang' by Jacques Derrida","description":"\u003ch4\u003eOriginally published in French in 1974 as \u003cem\u003eGlas\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eClang\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Jacques Derrida's almost, playful books, where he decides to make philosophy architectural.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe page is split into parallel columns, with Hegel on the left and Jean Genet on the right, while quotations, interruptions, marginal notes and typographical intrusions continually break apart anything resembling a stable argument. Derrida sets Hegel’s enormous machinery of family, religion, dialectics and absolute knowledge against Genet’s writing of crime, sexuality, betrayal and abjection so that one contaminates the other. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is effectively deconstruction operating materially on the page. Meaning travels sideways; philosophical hierarchy gets caught in wordplay, sound, etymology and bodily association; literature refuses to remain philosophy’s illustrative subordinate. This 2021 translation by Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills retitles the work \u003cem\u003eClang\u003c\/em\u003e, catching the French \u003cem\u003eglas\u003c\/em\u003e: a knell, toll or reverberating sound. It is difficult, funny, excessive and intentionally impossible to read in the normal obedient manner—a major object-book of postwar theory as much as a philosophical text. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2021. Posthumanities series, volume 62. Paperback. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills. 312 pages. ISBN 9780816691524. First edition of this new English translation. Very good condition; light shelf and edge wear to covers, with minor corner\/edge creasing visible. Internally clean and well kept.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45952497320019,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_20.png?v=1786518262","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/clang-by-jacques-derrida","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}