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Re-Reading Derrida
Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
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<a name="OLE_LINK2"><a name="OLE_LINK1">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. </a></a><P><BR />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. <BR /><BR />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. <BR /><BR /><BR /></P>
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7725-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7726-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
172
Product type
Edited Book
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Re-reading Derrida No access
Contents No access
About This book No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction: Mourning’s Number No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Absolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn For No access
2. Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas, and the Third No access
3. The Disjointed City: Materializing Mourning and Forgiveness in the Reconstruction of Beirut No access
4. The Haunting of (un)Burial: Mourning the “Unknown” in Whitman’s America No access
5. Elegizing John Wordsworth: Commemoration and Lyric No access
6. City of Ghosts: Mourning and Justice in The Sixth Sense No access
7. Deconstruction and Democracy in the Neoliberal Turn No access
8. Cryptonymic Secretion: On the Kind-ness of Strangers No access
9. Hospitality to Trauma: Ethics after Auschwitz No access
10. Hospitality and Its Discontents (As Such) No access
