Short, as promised, and more than a little elliptical, I found myself wanting more (and less!) from the author. I feel profoundly confused and unsettled...to his credit he did provide a (fairly) schematic explication of Derrida's ideas but it still felt convoluted.

I usually don't go in for these short introduction books, but as I've been meaning to get back to Derrida's works I thought this might be a good launching pad. I found Simon Glendinning's introduction to be extremely well written and clear, providing an engaging and enlightening summary of several of Derrida's main arguments. It felt both condensed (in a good way) and sufficiently rigorous to aid me in getting a re-grip on Derrida's thoughts before plunging back into the primary sources. ( )

Extremely poorly written. Could manage to read only half of it. ( )