Dissemination (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers)

The paperback edition of a work first published in 1981, this book is intended for students of literary criticism, linguistics and philosophy. It provides Derrida's most central and seminal works: "La Pharmacie de Platon", "La Double Seance" and "La Dessemination". The essays provide original readings of Mallarme and present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse.