Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was one of the twentieth century's most prolific and influential philosophers. He was director at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Kaira M. Cabanas is associate professor of global modern and contemporary art history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.
One of Derrida's most extraordinarily deep and and virtuosic texts, and one of the best ever written about Artaud.--Denis Hollier, New York University