Thursday, August 9, 2001

Book Crazy


I went book crazy on Amazon, searching for books by Derrida and came across a bunch of "...for beginner books" on Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Saussure (a linguist), Structuralism and Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism. Following someone's Post-Modernism 101 list which included Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners as one of it's recommended titles, I found some more obscure philosophy which attempts to provide a model for our time, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Two other books in the same realm, written by the same authors or translator popped up in the "Customers who bought this book also bought" section:


One reviewer said the concepts are hard to follow, and not well explained.

Three titles had tables of contents I could peruse: Derrida for Beginners, Lacan for Beginners, and Postmodernism for Beginners

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