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Glassery, by , Gregory L. Ulmer, Jacques Derrida, University of Nebraska Press,1986
Glassary is a companion volume to Glas.
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. Glas exemplifies
Derrida's methodology of reading and his central philosophical and literary
concerns. The reader fascinated by its complexities will appreciate the
assistance of Glassary. Written by the chief translator of Glas,
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 of Glas might
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 of Glas in 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 on Glas and
literature and philosophy; Ulmer's on Glas and psychoanalysis.
