*Jacques Derrida Interviews* Author: [French] Jacques Derrida / [French] Élisabeth Roudinesco Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

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Philosophy can also be down-to-earth! A thirty-year intellectual dialogue between Derrida and historian Élisabeth Roudinesco:

An introductory guide to "humanities jargon" – inheriting legacies, understanding change, and responding to the times!

Arm yourself with avant-garde thought, "so that what we firmly adhere to is no longer intact."

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【About the content】

Jacques Derrida —

He is regarded as one of the most radical thinkers,

awakening the critical spirit of an entire generation.

Élisabeth Roudinesco —

She witnessed the struggles of this entire generation,

and dedicated herself to chronicling the "spirited generation" of French philosophy.

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From the late 1960s, the two embarked on a thirty-year dialogue.

The avant-garde topics discussed then remain prescient and inspiring today.

How to inherit thought? Is the family eternal? Is the revolutionary spirit dead?

Where should feminism go? How do minorities fight for rights? What does "political correctness" mean?

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This is an introduction to Derrida's later thought, and a major review of the intellectual legacy of the twentieth century.

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【Editor's Recommendation】

📓Jacques Derrida + Élisabeth Roudinesco: Cautious inheritors, radical subverters!

Derrida was born in Algeria, rose to fame in Paris, and gained worldwide recognition as a leading figure in postmodern thought of the twentieth century;

His deconstructive ideas were all the rage, cited in popular culture, and even appeared in Woody Allen's films.

As a historian and psychoanalyst, Roudinesco dedicated herself to annotating and chronicling twentieth-century French philosophy,

As an interrogator, she invited Derrida to a conversation spanning thirty years —

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📓The "Spirited Generation" of French Philosophy: Remembering Lacan, Althusser, and promoting their intellectual legacy

What is the use of those ideas that seem increasingly distant from us?

The nine chapters of dialogue in this book will prove that the impact of postmodern thought on reality has never faded.

Lacan, Althusser, Foucault... Listen to Derrida and Roudinesco recount stories from the past,

Learn to maintain "disloyal fidelity" in inheriting thought, "challenging the limitations that this legacy has always imposed."

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📓Understanding change within change, constantly responding to the times

In an era of gender diversity, how to understand the family? What are the problems with political correctness?

Do animals have rights? How to view vegetarianism? Should capital punishment be abolished?

Is criticizing Israel tantamount to antisemitism? Is psychoanalysis no longer important?

Addressing contemporary issues through confrontation, arming oneself with thought, maintaining a critical and vigilant eye.