Description: Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.
Brief description: Rodolphe Gasché is Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Review Quotes: A formidable book... [A] splendidly full and orderly synthesis of Derrida's thought, which makes a meticulous case for him as a philosopher of real substance, given the radical nature of his investigations in the philosophies of language and of meaning.--John Sturrock "London Review of Books"