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Simon Glendinning is Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy (2008).

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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

Jacques Derrida had a major influence on 20th century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, he is most renowned-or condemned-for his engagement with the movement that he called 'deconstruction.'

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning explores both the difficulty and significance of the work of Derrida. Glendinning provides a clear sense of the centrality of Derrida's interest in Europe and his relationship to philosophy, to religious history, and to modern democratic politics.

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• 1: A picture of Derrida

• 2: Misunderestimating Derrida

• 3: Reading the logocentric heritage

• 4: The turn to writing

• 5: Différance

• 6: Iterability

• 7: The turn to politics

• 8: Man and animal

• 9: Starting over