Re-reading Derrida

Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
Herausgeber: Thwaites, Tony; Seaboyer, Judith

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780739177259
• ISBN-10: 0739177257
• Artikelnr.: 36752808

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 America 63 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