Re-reading Derrida

Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields. Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two of the best-known Derridean thinkers today, who were close friends of Derrida: J. Hillis Miller and Derek Attridge. Each of the other essays has been written to respond to these, and—in a novel move—to at least two of the other contributions. As a result, the very form of the book is a way of exploring the thematics of hospitality, and the ways in which disciplines open themselves to one another, extending lines of flight across the archipelagos of knowledge—the politics of the memorial, poetry, trauma, film, neoliberalism, the novel, and psychoanalysis. Throughout the book themes and concerns recur, each time refracted, developed, and questioned under the pressures of new conjunctures. As the editors’ Introduction argues, what the book seeks to show is not that a certain general body of theoretical work can be applied in all sorts of areas, but something more interesting: that from the outset, theoretical work itself takes on its meaning only in its grappling with the specific, the singular, even the unique. Miller’s and Attridge’s essays have at their heart, after all, the loss of a friend.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-08
Mått:157 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:188
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739177259

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Tony Thwaites teaches modernist literature and literary and cultural theory at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises and Countersignatures (UP Florida, 2011) and Reading Freud: Psychoanalysis as Cultural Theory (SAGE, 2007). He is currently working on a book on Lacanian narrative theory. Judith Seaboyer teaches Victorian and contemporary literature at the University of Queensland. She has published on British and American contemporary fiction, and is presently working on the turn to pastoral in contemporary literature and on the pedagogy of reading well.

Recensioner i media

Refusing to mourn, Miller and Attridge engage Derrida's refusing to mourn in a volume of clear-eyed interdisciplinary explorations on hospitality that absolute mourning and posthumous infidelity invite. Seven scholars and the editors answer the invitation with expansive essays that address one another as they give their take on legacies, memorials, crypts, and elegies in Beirut and New Orleans, in Wordsworth and Joyce, in Abraham and Torok, in film and geopolitics, in trauma and community. Each takes up in one nonsynonymy or other the spacing auto-immunity future of that infidelity or absolute.

Innehållsförteckning

About this bookAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Mourning’s NumberTony Thwaites and Judith SeaboyerI: MourningsAbsolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn ForJ. Hillis Miller Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas, and the ThirdDerek AttridgeII: HospitalitiesThe Disjointed City: Materializing Mourning and Forgiveness in the Reconstruction of BeirutJonathan HallThe Haunting of (un)Burial: Mourning the “Unknown” in Whitman’s America63Lindsay TuggleElegizing John Wordsworth: Commemoration and LyricJ. Mark SmithCity of Ghosts: Mourning and Justice in The Sixth SenseWarwick MulesDeconstruction and Democracy in the Neoliberal TurnStefan MattessichCryptonymic Secretion: On the Kind-ness of StrangersLaurie JohnsonHospitality to Trauma: Ethics after AuschwitzShannon Burns?: Hospitality and its Discontents (as such)Tony ThwaitesBibliographyIndex