Jacques Derrida - Signed - 1971

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), La Double Séance. Paris, Tel Quel, [1971]. in-8° ( 22.3 x 18 cm), paperback, first edition, 1971.

Separate first edition. This major text was first published in the journal Tel Quel (issues 41 and 42) in 1970, before being printed separately as a volume by the collection in 1971. A fine, well-preserved copy, internally clean and free of foxing.

Splendid, soaring dispatch to Maurice Roche (1924-1997), French writer, composer and journalist, a key figure in the literary avant-garde of the 1960s-1970s and an active member of the Tel Quel group.

In l'après coup du haschich, this truth revealed: "The inside is outside and the outside does not exist"

La Double Séance is a masterful textual confrontation between Plato and Stéphane Mallarmé. In it, Derrida argues that Mallarmé's literature escapes the trap of philosophical truth.

Schrift [Writing] / Körper [Body] / Leitern [Scales]

Zwischen [Between]. * (Tout court)

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"Das Innere ist außen und das Außen existiert nicht"

"The inside is outside and the outside does not exist"

For Maurice Roche, this day, in the aftermath** of hashish

with all my friendship

Jacques Derrida

May 20, 1971

*Concepts of La Double Séance, which explores writing, bodily inscription, the space "between" literature and truth (through Mallarmé and Plato).

**Reference to the psychoanalytic concept of "afterthought" (Nachträglichkeit in Freud)