Derrida's Breakfast

Author(s): David Brooks

New Adult Fiction

Four essays, three on the philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose writings have so influenced our time (one on his breakfast, one on his cat, one on his relationship with a snake, and one (on the killing of doves) on the great early twentieth century poet Rilke - each of them examining key failures and challenges in the relationship of poetry, philosophy and 'the animal', and each entertaining, absorbing, and thought-provoking well beyond its given subject. A book that crosses with apparent ease the boundaries of philosophy, literary criticism (there are passages on Coleridge, on D.H. Lawrence, on Henry Lawson) and human-animal relations, by a writer recently described as 'one of the most skilful, unusual and versatile of Australian writers' (Sydney Morning Herald, January 2016).


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781921556999
  • : Brandl & Schlesinger
  • : Brandl & Schlesinger
  • : June 2016
  • : 190mm X 124mm
  • : June 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : David Brooks
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 194