Jacques Derrida. 
 
Stanford University Press: 1995. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Jacket has barely any shelf wear. 150 pages. Near fine. 
 
Three collected essays from the inimitable Derrida. Each displays the thinker, sly yet serious, finding new horizons for various fields of study - politics, literature, design, theology, and more -  and burning contemporary questions: what does it mean to be required to respond ethically? What is it about our experience of space that makes a whole world possible? Why is a name untranslateable?
 
"The name: what does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus said of the Good. What happens, above all, when it is necessary to sur-name, re-naming there where, precisely, the name comes to be found lacking? What makes the proper name into a sort of sur-name, psuedonym, or cryptonym at once singular and singularly untranslatable?"