Books by David A. White

Derrida on Being as Presencedevelops an extensive critical apparatus for evaluating the cogency of Jacques Derrida's early theoretical writings on language, especially as they form the foundation of "deconstruction" as a mode of interpretation.

Plato's dialogue "The Statesman" has often been found structurally puzzling because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. This book interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues "The Philebus" and "The Laws".