Derrida writing events Simon Morgan Wortham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wortham, Simon, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in philosophy

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Events (Philosophy).

Written communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. As an Algerian émigré, a postcolonial outsider, and an idiomatic writer who felt tied to a language that was not his own, and as a figure obsessed by the singularity of the literary or philosophical event, Derrida emerges as one whose thought always arrives on occasion. But how are we to understand the event in Derrida? Is there a risk that such stories of Derrida's work tend to misunderstand the essential unpredictability at work in the conditions of his thought? And how are we to reconcile the importance in Derrida of the unknowable event, the pull of the singular, with deconstruction's critical and philosophical rigour and its claims to rethink more systematically the ethico-political field. This book argues that this negotiation in fact allows deconstruction to reformulate the very questions that we associate with ethical and political responsibility and shows this to be the central interest in Derrida's work

Contents:

Introduction : writing the event, or, citations from an archive of the future

The archive and the anthological

Writing obsession

Writing friendship : Agamben and Derrida

Anonymity writing pedagogy : Beckett, Descartes, Derrida

Raelity

Can dreaming be 'political'? : some questions on the politics of cultural studies : an interview with Paul Bowman

End note : saying the event

Introduction: Writing the Event, or Citations from an Archive of the Future

1. The Archive and the Anthological

2. Writing Obsession

3. Writing Friendship: Agamben and Derrida

4. Anonymity Writing Pedagogy: Beckett, Descartes, Derrida

5. Reality

6. Can Dreaming Be 'Political'?: Some Questions on the 'Politics' of Cultural Studies

Endnote: Saying the Event

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-142) and index

ISBN:

9786612870750

9781472546357

1472546350

9781282870758

1282870750

9781441100122

1441100121

OCLC:

676695846