{"product_id":"event-perhaps-hardcover","title":"EVENT PERHAPS (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cb\u003ePhilosopher, film star, father of “post truth”—the real story of Jacques Derrida\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to “little more than an object of ridicule.” For his fans, he is an intellectual rock star who ranged across literature, politics, and linguistics. In \u003ci\u003eAn Event, Perhaps\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Salmon presents this misunderstood and misappropriated figure as a deeply humane and urgent thinker for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born in Algiers, the young Jackie was always an outsider. Despite his best efforts, he found it difficult to establish himself among the Paris intellectual milieu of the 1960s. However, in 1967, he changed the whole course of philosophy: outlining the central concepts of deconstruction. Immediately, his reputation as a complex and confounding thinker was established. Feted by some, abhorred by others, Derrida had an exhaustive breadth of interests but, as Salmon shows, was moved by a profound desire to understand how we engage with each other. It is a theme explored through Derrida’s intimate relationships with writers such as Althusser, Genet, Lacan, Foucault, Cixous, and Kristeva.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Accessible, provocative and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eAn Event, Perhaps\u003c\/i\u003e will introduce a new readership to the life and work of a philosopher whose influence over the way we think will continue long into the twenty-first century.","brand":"Salmon, Peter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337181032722,"sku":"9781788732802","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/23857063482824_49120110-22bd-4b4e-bb93-fabd191685b6.jpg?v=1780435393","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/event-perhaps-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}