Sabotage

John Sturrock

  • The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection by Rodolphe Gasché
    Harvard, 348 pp, £19.95, December 1986, ISBN 0 674 86700 9
  • Derrida by Christopher Norris
    Fontana, 271 pp, £4.95, November 1987, ISBN 0 00 686057 5
  • The Truth in Painting by Jacques Derrida, translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod
    Chicago, 386 pp, £39.95, October 1987, ISBN 0 226 14323 6
  • The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass
    Chicago, 521 pp, £36.75, August 1987, ISBN 0 226 14320 1
  • The Archaeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac by Jacques Derrida, translated by John Leavey
    University of Nebraska Press, 143 pp, $7.95, June 1987, ISBN 0 8032 6571 9

Bait them and the Derrideans certainly rise. When the English version of Derrida’s Glas appeared last year in the United States[*], I wrote a griping review of it, to regret mainly that a philosopher as brilliantly fresh and radical as Derrida should want to publish something so mannered and so hard to follow. Some of the North American faithful objected to this review, and one, a professor of philosophy in Scranton, wrote a letter warning that I had failed not just Derrida but our whole benighted community. To wit:

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[*] Glas is published in Britain by the University of Nebraska Press (262 pp., £47.50. October 1987, 0 8032 1667 X) The translators are John Leavey and Richard Rand.