Derrida's Secret - Barbour, Charles
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A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experience The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death. Barbour shows that…mehr

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A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experience The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death. Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other) insofar as we conceal as well. Key Features * Develops a unique reading of the later work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, particularly his largely overlooked discussions of the secret in his writings and seminars * Compares Derrida's work on the secret with other important political thinkers, including Deleuze, Schmitt, Arendt, Bataille and Agamben * Draws parallels with the work of German sociologist Georg Simmel, showing Derrida's significance for sociological thought * Connects Derrida's work to a series of philosophical debates in the analytic tradition, such as the problems of consciousness, self-deception and other minds
Autorenporträt
Charles Barbour is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Marx Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology (Lexington Books, 2012). He is co-editor of Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt (Continuum, 2011) and After Sovereignty (Routledge, 2009). He has written numerous book chapters and journal articles on social and political theory, with a special emphasis on Karl Marx.