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Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery


Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery

Hardback by Schad, John

Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery

£100.00

ISBN:
9781845190309
Publication Date:
1 Dec 2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Liverpool University Press
Pages:
211 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 - 29 May 2024
Someone Called Derrida: An Oxford Mystery

Description

Someone called Jacques Derrida, someone called him on the phone, someone who was dead -- this was August 22nd 1979. A mystery, he thought; but it is a mystery that began more than ten years earlier, in 1968, when Derrida, a philosopher, visits Oxford and there, before the very eyes of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty, he dies, several times. Murder, he thought. And so I shall investigate, and begin with a sign that the philosopher says he left within a book from the thirteenth century, a strange fortune-telling book that he had found in the oldest part of Oxford's Bodleian Library. In the book are a host of cryptic questions, but the philosopher directs us to one in particular, a peculiar question about a boy, and the question is this: Does the boy live? The philosopher will not, though, give the answer; he requires, instead, that we go to Oxford to open the book for ourselves.

Contents

'Si puer vivet'; A Sleep of Prisoners; XX; Silences; Freiburg; Esther; "They Weren't Really You Know"; The House; Stolen Evening; High Places; Fast Cars; Secret Marriage; Hastings; Sacrifice; Elijah; Index.

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