Description: "This book is an event in Derrida scholarship, as it marks the publication of a long-lost Derrida text simply as "Geschlecht III," which the French philosopher never completed. Part of a series of reflections that represent his most sustained engagement with the writings of Martin Heidegger, this third part was thought by Derrida himself to be the heart of his Geschlecht series. The enigmatic word itself has several meanings in German, and Derrida teases out its implications for topics as diverse and provocative as sexual difference, nationalism, race, and humanity, engaging with Heidegger's controversial oeuvre throughout, as well as a host of other philosophical thinkers and even poetic ones, in the case of Georg Trakl. Thanks to the meticulous editorial work of Geoffrey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth, and Rodrigo Therezo, and vividly rendered by Chenoweth and Therezo's translation, Derrida's most mysterious text, awaited for decades, is finally available for new generations to ponder"--
Brief description: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in their English translation by the University of Chicago Press.
Review Quotes: "This is a well-conceived reconstruction of the hitherto missing central piece of Derrida's Geschlecht series. Geschlecht III testifies again to the subtlety and insightfulness of Derrida's reading of Heidegger. It is a provocative reading that exposes the tendency toward gathering and unity in Heidegger's thought as it explores anew questions such as a non-dual sexuality, the foreign and the homeland, history and nationalism."--Daniela Vallega-Neu, University of Oregon