Derrida is one of the most influential, controversial and complex thinkers. The book offers a critical evaluation of deconstruction by focusing on the problematic of writing, self and other in the thought of Derrida. It examines how these concepts relate to one another in order to analyse systematically the influence that the concept of alterity has had in deconstructing a certain idea of subjectivity in Western metaphysics.
Thea Bellou argues that Derrida s intellectual project is to examine the fate of irreducible alterity within Western metaphysics. Hence, the question of the other...