Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism / edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- editor.

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 314 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Derrida's modernity and our modernism / Jean-Michel Rabaté

Trickster economy : Derrida's Baudelaire, and the role of money, counterfeits, and alms in the modern city / Marit Grøtta

Kant's celestial economy : a footnote to The Gift of Death / Eddis N. Miller

Derrida and Kafka : a Talmudic disputation before the law / Vivian Liska

Derrida with Heidegger : poetic language, animality, world / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

To wound the language : Derrida reads Celan / Miriam Jerade

Derrida's Joyce / Sam Slote

Derrida revoicing Artaud / Alhelí Alvarado-Díaz

Derrida on Bataille : from dueling to duet / Claire Lozier

A cross in the margin : inscription and erasure in Derrida and pound / Mark Byron

Derrida after Valéry (after Derrida) / Suzanne Guerlac

Three ways of looking at Derrida's encounter with Austin / Raoul Moati

Writing in the shadow of Sartre's Genet : Derrida's Glas and the ethics of biography / Robert Doran

Derrida, Cixous, and (feminine) writing / Marta Segarra

Reading between the lines : Derrida, Blanchot, Beckett / Leslie Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Understanding Derrida, understanding modernism

ISBN:

9781501331862

1501331868

OCLC:

1053598515