The Marrano specter : Derrida and Hispanism / Erin Graff Zivin, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graff Zivin, Erin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula.

Crypto-Jews.

Civilization, Hispanic.

Marranos.

Physical Description:

ix, 167 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida's work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms and problems he addresses take on a distinctive meaning: nationalism and cosmopolitanism, spectrality and hauntology, the relation of subjectivity and truth, the university, disciplinarity, institutionality. Perhaps more remarkably, the influence is in a profound sense reciprocal: Across his writings, Derrida grapples with the theme of marranismo, the phenomenon of Sephardic crypto-Judaism. Derrida's marranismo is a means of taking apart traditional accounts of identity; a way for Derrida to reflect on the status of the secret; a philosophical nexus where language, nationalism, and truth-telling meet and clash in productive ways; and a way of elaborating a critique of modern biopolitics. It is much more than a simple marker of his work's Hispanic identity, but it is also, and irreducibly, that. The essays collected in The Marrano Specter cut across the grain of traditional Hispanism, but also of the humanistic disciplines broadly conceived. Their vantage point-the theoretical, philosophically inflected critique of disciplinary practices-poses uncomfortable, often unfamiliar questions for both Hispanophone studies and the broader theoretical humanities. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Marrano Indisciplinarity

1 Cervantes on "Derrida": Hispanism in the Open / Jacques Lezra Lezra, Jacques 15

2 Spectral Comparisons: Cortázar and Derrida / David Kelman Kelman, David 31

3 On Mondialatinization, or Saving the Name of the Latin / Jaime Hanneken Hanneken, Jaime 49

II Form And Secrecy

4 The Jew or Patriarchy (or Worse) / Brett Levinson Levinson, Brett 67

5 Two Sides of the Same Coin? Form, Matter, and Secrecy in Derrida, de Man, and Borges / Patrick Dove Dove, Patrick 81

III Between Nonethics and Infrapolitics

6 Marrano Spirit? ... and Hispanism, or Responsibility in 2666 / Gareth Williams Williams, Gareth 103

7 Infrapolitical Derrida: The On tic Determination of Politics beyond Empiricism / Alberto Moreiras Moreiras, Alberto 116

8 Deconstruction and Its Precursors: Levinas and Borges after Derrida / Erin Graff Zivin Zivin, Erin Graff 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823277681

0823277682

9780823277674

0823277674

OCLC:

1004512045

Publisher Number:

99975324945