Counterpath Traveling With Jacques Derrida

This collaborative work by Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida explores the idea of traveling with the philosopher of deconstruction. Malabou's readerly text of quotations and commentary demonstrates how Derrida's work functions as a counter-Odyssey through meaning, theorizing and thematizing notions of arrival, drifting, derivation, and catastrophe. Writing in a familiar and unguarded manner, as if he were on vacation from his own writing, Derrida still remains totally faithful to that work and invites the reader to reflect on much of what haunts his texts as well as his daily life, questions of distance and death, the relation to the other and exile.