The politics and pedagogy of mourning : on responsibility in eulogy / Timothy Secret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Secret, Timothy, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering.

Bereavement.

Grief.

Eulogies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 261 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Contents:

1 On Hemlock and Becoming Mortal 1

1.1 'A discourse of mourning and the denial of mourning' 1

1.2 The anticipation of death 6

The end of Being-there 6

Reading Heidegger 10

Three points about death 14

2 Articulation 27

2.1 A serious discussion 27

Before deconstruction sits a gatekeeper 27

'An excessively philosophical gesture' 31

The puzzle 38

Articulating meaning 40

2.2 Hinges and pivots 48

Beyond comprehension 48

Derrida's terms 51

The sheaf 56

The trace as a hinge 58

3 The Ethics of Vulnerability 63

3.1 A wounding of language 63

The challenge of Levinas 63

The ethics of ethics 69

Il Tu, Je, Tu, Il 72

3.2 Death in the order of exposition 80

Je: The nausea of being 80

Tu: Beyond constitution 86

Ca: The trace of the other 91

Il Justice for the dead 100

4 The Scene of Writing 109

4.1 The psychographic metaphor 109

The friend of psychoanalysis 109

Freud's angle 115

Surprises from the dead 120

4.2 Psychic sketches 123

The project 123

Inside/outside 132

The Freudian trace 134

5 Mourning or Melancholia 141

5.1 Psychoanalysis and mourning 141

Was heiβt Trauer? 141

Ferenczi's introjection 150

5.2 The ghosts of Budapest 158

La théorie trans-phénoménologique dialogique de l'archè 158

Three ways to eat the dead 160

What is a crypt? 165

6 The Address of Eulogy 177

6.1 Tracing a path between two catastrophes 177

The most common of experiences 177

The simplest thing 182

In memoriam 190

I appear before him 195

The world is gone 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472575142

1472575148

OCLC:

871508977