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BIBLIOGRAPHY Jacques Derrida was a prolific writer who published more than 37 books and 250 essays, interviews, etc. The most complete li st is by Albert Leventure, in David Wood (ed), Derrida: a Critical Reader, Blackwell , Oxford, 1992. For further reading : Christopher Norris, Derrida, Fontana, London , 1987. Geoffrey Bennington & Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida , University of Chicago Press, 1993. Collec ti ons of short texts and extracts are a good way of beginning to read Derrida's writing. See Peggy Kamuf's A Derrida Reader, Harvester, Hemel Hempstead, 1991, and Derek Attr idge's Acts of Literature. Routledge, London, 1992. Derrida's interviews are also useful. The most wide-ranging and best for beginners is Points ... Interviews, 1974-94, ed. Elisabeth Weber, Stanford University Press. 1995. Earlier interviews are in Positions [ 1972], ed. Alan Bass, Athlone Press, London, 1987. There are two useful collectio ns on politics: Institutions of Philosophy, Harvard Un ivers ity Press, 1992. and Negotiations: Writings , Minnesota University Press. Minneapolis , 1992. See also The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe [1991] , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1992. For background reading to some of the debates ... The literary-critical debates are introduced in Christopher Nor ri s' Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Methuen, London, 1982, and Jonath an Culler's On Deconstruction, Routledge, London, 1983. On deconstruct ive arch itecture, see Deconstruction: Omnibus Volume, ed . Andreas Papadakis et al, Academy Editions, London, 1989. For art. see Peter Brunette and David Wills (eds), Deconstruction in the Visual Arts, Cambridge Univers ity Press , 1993. Two shorter accounts are in What is Deconstruction? by Andrew Benjamin and Christopher Norri s, Academy Editions, London, 1989.
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On gender politics and deconstruction, see Elisabeth Grosz's essay in Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct, ed. Sneja Gunew, Routledge, London 1990, and Diane Elam's Feminism and Deconstruction: Ms. En Abyme, Routledge, London, 1994. Gayatri Sp ivak 's writing is usefully introduced in A Spivak Reader, edited by Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, Routledge, London, 1996 . For those who want to keep up to date, an annual review of what's been written on and about deconstructi on is included 1n The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Blackwell , Oxford, yearly from 199 1. Texts by Derrida: 'Plato's Pharmacy' in Dissemination (1 972] Athlone Press, London, 1981. 'Differance' 1n Speech and Phenomena [1967] Northwest University Press, Illi no is , 1973. 'Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences' in Writing and Difference (1967] University of Chicago Press, 1978. 'Signature Event Context' in Margins of Philosophy (1972] Harvester Press, Brighton, 1982. Glas [197 4] University of Nebraska Press , 1986. 'Letter to a Japanese Friend ' (1 983] in A Derrida Reader, ed. Kamuf (above). 'Mallarme' [ 1974] in Acts of Literature, ed . Attridge (above). 'Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce' (1987] in Acts of Literature, ed . Attridge (above). 'Point de Folie - Maintenant !'Architecture' [1986] in Bernard Tschu mi, Le Case Vide, Architectural Association, London , 1986 . The Truth in Painting (1 978] University of Chicago Press, 1987. Memoirs of the Blind [1990] University of Chicago Press, 1993. 'Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War' [1 988] in revised edition of Memoirs for Paul de Man, Columbia University Pre ss, 1989. 'Choreographies' [1982] in Points ... In terviews, 1974-94, ed. Weber (above). Specters of Marx [1993] Routledge, London, 1994.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jacques Derrida was a prolific writer who published more than 37 books and 250 essays, interviews, etc. The most complete li st is by Albert Leventure, in David Wood (ed), Derrida: a Critical Reader, Blackwell , Oxford, 1992.

For further reading : Christopher Norris, Derrida, Fontana, London , 1987. Geoffrey Bennington & Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida , University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Collec ti ons of short texts and extracts are a good way of beginning to read Derrida's writing. See Peggy Kamuf's A Derrida Reader, Harvester, Hemel Hempstead, 1991, and Derek Attr idge's Acts of Literature. Routledge, London, 1992.

Derrida's interviews are also useful. The most wide-ranging and best for beginners is Points ... Interviews, 1974-94, ed. Elisabeth Weber, Stanford University Press. 1995. Earlier interviews are in Positions [ 1972], ed. Alan Bass, Athlone Press, London, 1987.

There are two useful collectio ns on politics: Institutions of Philosophy, Harvard Un ivers ity Press, 1992. and Negotiations: Writings , Minnesota University Press. Minneapolis , 1992. See also The Other Heading: Reflections on Today's Europe [1991] , Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1992.

For background reading to some of the debates ...

The literary-critical debates are introduced in Christopher Nor ri s' Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Methuen, London, 1982, and Jonath an Culler's On Deconstruction, Routledge, London, 1983.

On deconstruct ive arch itecture, see Deconstruction: Omnibus Volume, ed . Andreas Papadakis et al, Academy Editions, London, 1989.

For art. see Peter Brunette and David Wills (eds), Deconstruction in the Visual Arts, Cambridge Univers ity Press , 1993. Two shorter accounts are in What is Deconstruction? by Andrew Benjamin and Christopher Norri s, Academy Editions, London, 1989.

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