A review by friedchickensuicide
Jacques Derrida by Nicholas Royle

4.0

An appropriately mind-bogging introduction to Derrida's thought that would irritate and infuriate a majority of its readers, but would be have it any other way? How can we possibly have a straightforward boilerplate listing of "key ideas" for somebody as revolutionary as Derrida? It is an invigorating text, which makes for an exceptional reading experience. It is a book one should return to again and again, preferably with a notebook and a pen, because there's just no damn way you got everything the first time. But quite definitely, this is simply not the book you should be reading if you have your paper on Deconstruction or Post-Structuralism the next morning, and in this, it is very different from a lot of the books in this series.