Derridada : Lexington Books : 9780739116227 : 0739116223 : 26 Sep 2008 : "This remarkable book is the first attempt to bring into dialogue two of the twentieth century's defining intellectual icons: artist Marcel Duchamp and philosopher Jacques Derrida. It not only shows how much these two very different thinkers had in common but also manages to shed new light on their respective artistic and philosophical itineraries. In Derridada, Thomas Deane Tucker has constructed a wonderfully baroque textual machine that is worthy of Duchamp and Derrida themselves and he sends us back to their works with a fresh and engaged eye."---Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University "Thomas Deane Tucker's chiasmatic entwining of Derrida and Duchamp is a precise but accessible, cogent but playful, double session: a marvelous and unique explication and demonstration of the principle strategies of two of the twentieth century's most influential ocuvres. An antidote to the myriad arid applications of Derrida's th