The impossible mourning of Jacques Derrida / Sean Gaston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaston, Sean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques--Death and burial.

Bereavement--Philosophy.

Bereavement.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

viii, 152 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2006]

Summary:

How does one respond to the death of Jacques Derrida? The author re-examines his own relationship with this great thinker and traces his own mourning, while examining the nature of mourning in Derrida's work. In exploring the gap that the death of Derrida has left open, he traces the gaps (ecarts), and the history of the gap, in Derrida's work.

Contents:

Ecarts: Derrida and the Gap vii

1 The Precedant (12-29 October 2004) 1

1 12 October the precedant 1

2 13 October start with the gaps 4

3 14 October a first cut 6

4 15 October tekhne working for phusis 7

5 17 October the etymon 8

6 20 October le decalage 10

7 21 October Paris 11

8 25 October prefaces to Glas 11

9 26 October le pre 13

10 27 October khora 14

11 28 October no one gap 15

12 29 October not two 17

2 Histories-Decalages (1-30 November 2004) 19

13 1 November 28 October 1816 19

14 2 November Hegel's interests 20

15 3 November the interest in the gap 22

16 4 November sources ecartees 23

17 5 November an altering difference 24

18 8 November time and truth 25

19 9 November war 30

20 10 November doxa and episteme 31

21 11 November d'un texte `a l'ecart 34

22 12 November the today's of Heidegger 37

23 14 November Sophist 41

24 15 November the hunt for being 43

25 16 November the gangplank 45

26 17 November la vie la mort 47

27 18 November I need not apologize for the digression 47

28 19 November ecarts: machine 51

29 21 November Le Grand Ecart 52

30 22 November three separations 53

31 23 November the speeds of hospitality 55

32 24 November hitting a snag 61

33 25 November Manchester 62

34 26 November I am always pre-ceded 62

35 28 November sehnsucht 64

36 29 November where Derrida begins 68

37 30 November with writing 70

3 The Gap Moves (1-17 December 2004) 74

38 1 December raving, a little 74

39 2 December moving on to horses 81

40 3 December Platonic precedence 83

41 5 December dEsCARTeS 86

42 6 December trying to close the gap 89

43 7 December touching the untouchable 93

44 8 December somewhere between is and was 98

45 9 December March 1994, Rue Victor Cousin 101

46 10 December a recit even 101

47 12 December Oxford 1942 105

48 13 December the gap moves, the gap dances 112

49 14 December hiding the face of God 113

50 15 December l'ouverture elle-meme, la beance 119

51 16 December the ruins of monu-memorialization 120

52 17 December three dreams 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-141) and index.

ISBN:

0826490352

OCLC:

63400113