Positions

Positions is a 1972 book by the French philosopherJacques Derrida.

Positions

Contents
Summary
Contents
Notes
Editions

Summary
Positions consists of a collection of interviews. Derrida talks about his earlier works
and their relationships. He said that his 1962 essay, Edmund Husserl's Origin of
Geometry: An Introduction, already contained many elements of his thought, that
would be further elaborated. He added: "that essay can be read as the other side Cover of the first edition
(recto or verso, as you wish) ofSpeech and Phenomena."[1] Author Jacques Derrida

On the relationship between his three foundational works of 1967, Derrida Country France
explained: " Speech and Phenomena is perhaps the essay which I like most. Language French
Doubtless I could have bound it as a long note to one or the other of the other two Subject Philosophy
works. Of Grammatology refers to it and economizes its development. But in a
Published 1972
classical philosophical architecture, Speech... would come first: in it is posed, at a
point which appears juridically decisive for reasons that I cannot explain here, the Media type Print
question of the privilege of the voice and of phonetic writing in their relationship to
the entire history of the West, such as this history can be represented by the history of metaphysics and metaphysics in its most
modern, critical and vigilant form:Husserl's transcendental phenomenology."[2]

Contents
1. «Implications. Entretien avecHenri Ronse», pp. 9–24; 9–23 [cfr. b 1967(d)]
2. «Sémiologie et grammatologie. Entretien avecJulia Kristeva», pp. 25–50; 25–46 [cfr. b 1968(d)]
3. «Positions. Entretien avecJean-Louis Houdebineet Guy Scarpetta», pp. 51–133; 47–117 [cfr. b 1971(a)]
4. «Aver l'orecchio per la filosofia. Colloquio conLucette Finas», pp. 119–135 (nella sola ed. it.) [cfr. b 1972(b)]

Notes
1. Positions (1981), p. 5.
2. Positions (1981), pp. 4–5

Editions
[French original] 1972 Positions, Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris
[Italian] 1975 Posizioni. Scene, atti, figure della disseminazione
, Bertani, Verona 1975 (Ombre corte, Verona 1999²).
Translators: M. Chiappini and G. Sertoli
 [English] 1981 Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press)

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