{"product_id":"derrida-an-egyptian-on-the-problem-of-the-jewish-pyramid-hardback-9780745646381","title":"Derrida, an Egyptian; On the Problem of the Jewish Pyramid (Hardback) 9780745646381","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDerrida, an Egyptian\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn the Problem of the Jewish Pyramid\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Sloterdijk (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745646381, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.8 x 13.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.191 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A succinct yet extraordinarily intricate thought-tapestry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEras\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Peter Sloterdijk has a strong claim to being Germany's foremost public philosopher.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Philosopher's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Recommended\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Derrida's debt to German thought is well-known, and he wrote many elegies. Here a contemporary German thinker returns the compliment. A fitting tribute to an important philosopher and, through a sequence of surprising juxtapositions, a powerful work of theory in its own right.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart Elden, \u003ci\u003eDurham University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShortly before his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida expressed two paradoxical convictions: he was certain that he would be forgotten the very day he died, yet at the same time certain that something of his work would survive in the cultural memory. This text by Peter Sloterdijk - one of the major figures of contemporary philosophy - makes a contribution of its own to the preservation and continuation of Derrida's unique and powerful work.  \u003cp\u003eIn this brief but illuminating text, Sloterdijk offers a series of recontextualizations of Derrida's work by exploring the connections between Derrida and seven major thinkers, including Hegel, Freud and Thomas Mann. The leitmotif of this exploration is the role that Egypt and the Egyptian pyramid plays in the philosophical imagination of the West, from the exodus of Moses and the Jews to the conceptualization of the pyramid as the archetype of the cumbersome objects that cannot be taken along by the spirit on its return to itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Egyptian' is the term for all constructs that can be subjected to deconstruction - except for the pyramind, that most Egyptian of edifices, which stands in its place, unshakeable for all time, because its form is the undeconstructible remainder of a construction that is built to look as it would after its own collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgement  \u003cp\u003ePreliminary Note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Luhmann and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Sigmund Freud and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Thomas Mann and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Franz Borkenau and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Régis Debray and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Hegel and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Boris Groys and Derrida\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407315759384,"sku":"9780745646381","price":31.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745646381.jpg?v=1784161158","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/derrida-an-egyptian-on-the-problem-of-the-jewish-pyramid-hardback-9780745646381","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}