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Re-reading Derrida

Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities

von: Tony Thwaites, Judith Seaboyer
74,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	08.03.2013
ISBN/EAN:	9780739177266
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	188

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Titelbeschreibung

<a></a><a>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> 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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a uniquely collaborative exploration of the legacies of Jacques Derrida. Scholars from a wide variety of fields respond to his work by addressing such issues as the politics of the memorial, poetry, trauma, film, neoliberalism, the novel, and psychoanalysis––and then, in the processes of revision, they respond to each other.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About this book Acknowledgements Introduction: Mourning’s Number Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer I: Mournings Absolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn For J. Hillis Miller Posthumous Infidelity: Derrida, Levinas, and the Third Derek Attridge II: Hospitalities The Disjointed City: Materializing Mourning and Forgiveness in the Reconstruction of Beirut Jonathan Hall The Haunting of (un)Burial: Mourning the “Unknown” in Whitman’s America63 Lindsay Tuggle Elegizing John Wordsworth: Commemoration and Lyric J. Mark Smith City of Ghosts: Mourning and Justice in The Sixth Sense Warwick Mules Deconstruction and Democracy in the Neoliberal Turn Stefan Mattessich Cryptonymic Secretion: On the Kind-ness of Strangers Laurie Johnson Hospitality to Trauma: Ethics after Auschwitz Shannon Burns ?: Hospitality and its Discontents (as such) Tony Thwaites Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

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.