Glassary

Glassaryis a companion volume toGlas. It offers English readers fuller access to the masterwork of Jacques Derrida, the leading philosopher in France. Derrida is important for his investigations of language, philosophy, and writing. He has perforated the boundaries between academic disciplines, has demonstrated the theological underpinnings of apparently atheological philosophies, and has thrown into question traditional notions about the "ownership" of ideas.Glasexemplifies Derrida's methodology of reading and his central philosophical and literary concerns. The reader fascinated by its complexities will appreciate the assistance ofGlassary. Written by the chief translator ofGlas, John P. Leavey, Jr., it includes an essay by Gregory Ulmer and a foreword by Jacques Derrida. The book provides all of the apparatus a reader ofGlasmight immediately desire, including notes on difficult or ambiguous passages, identifications of allusions and puns, locations of citations, and translations of passages in languages other than French. But Leavey does not stop there. He includes a glossary of use to readers ofGlasin any language and essays that relate it to Derrida's texts and to the modern French critical enterprise as a whole. Leavey's essay focuses onGlasand literature and philosophy; Ulmer's onGlasand psychoanalysis.Leavey, John P., Jr. is the author of 'Glassary' with ISBN 9780803228719 and ISBN 0803228716.