Derrida: writing events
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 Der…
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- Full title :Derrida : writing events / Simon Morgan Wortham.
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 th.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Continuum
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (145 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441100122, 1441100121, 1472546350, 9781472546357, 1282870750, 9781282870758, 9786612870750, 6612870753
- DOI:10.5040/9781472546357
- oclc:ocn676695846
- LC Classification:B2430.D484
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of 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.
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