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Derrida's Breakfast Author: David Brooks

ISBN: 9781921556999 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 128 Published: 1 June 2016 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 19.0 x 12.4 Description: Four essays, three on the philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose writings have so influenced our time (one on his breakfast, one on his cat, one on his relationship with a snake, and one (on the killing of doves) on the great early twentieth century poet Rilke - each of them examining key failures and challenges in the relationship of poetry, philosophy and 'the animal', and each entertaining, absorbing, and thought-provoking well beyond its given subject.

A book that crosses with apparent ease the boundaries of philosophy, literary criticism (there are passages on Coleridge, on D.H. Lawrence, on Henry Lawson) and human-animal relations, by a writer recently described as 'one of the most skilful, unusual and versatile of Australian writers' (Sydney Morning Herald, January 2016).

About the Author

DAVID BROOKS spent his earliest years in Greece and Yugoslavia. His first collection of poetry, The Cold Front, was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Prize and won the Anne Elder Award. His first collection of short fiction, The Book of Sei, was heralded as the most impressive debut in Australian short fiction since

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