Jacques Derrida
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: les styles de Nietzsche.
The University of Chicago Press, 1979. Bilingual edition. Translation by Barbara Harlow. Introduction by Stefano Agosti and drawings by Francois Loubrieu. 0226143333 164 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 9.25", exhibits light shelfwear, with sunning to spine and price sticker at bottom of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis of the challenges bequeathed to the modern world by Nietzsche.Spurs, then, is aptly titled, for Derrida's "deconstructions" of Nietzsche's meanings will surely act as spurs to further thought and controversy. This dual-language edition offers the English-speaking reader who has some knowledge of French an opportunity to examine the stylistic virtuosity of Derrida's writing—of particular significance for his analysis of "the question of style.""