Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone

By Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone

This quantity brings jointly essentially the most recognized and hugely revered commentators at the paintings of Jacques Derrida from Britain and the United States in a sequence of essays written to commemorate the existence and are available to phrases with the demise of 1 of crucial highbrow presences of our time.

Derrida’s proposal reached into approximately each nook of latest highbrow tradition and the variation he has made is incalculable. He used to be certainly arguable however the incredible originality of his paintings, regularly marked by way of the care, precision and recognize with which he learn the paintings of others, leaves us with a philosophical, moral and political legacy that might be either lasting and decisive.

The occasionally own, consistently insightful essays consider the a number of ways that Derrida’s paintings has marked highbrow tradition typically and the literary and philosophical tradition of england and the United States specifically. the phenomenal individuals supply an interdisciplinary view, investigating parts resembling deconstruction, ethics, time, irony, know-how, situation and fact. This e-book offers a wealthy and devoted context for wondering the importance of Derrida’s personal paintings as an occasion that arrived and maybe nonetheless is still to reach in our time.

Contributors: Derek Attridge, Thomas Baldwin, Geoffrey Bennington, Rachel Bowlby, Alex Callinicos, David E. Cooper, Simon Critchley, Robert Eaglestone, Simon Glendinning, Marian Hobson, Christopher Johnson, Peggy Kamuf, Michael Naas, Nicholas Royle

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Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy

This quantity brings jointly essentially the most famous and hugely revered commentators at the paintings of Jacques Derrida from Britain and the USA in a sequence of essays written to commemorate the lifestyles and are available to phrases with the dying of 1 of an important highbrow presences of our time. Derrida’s inspiration reached into approximately each nook of latest highbrow tradition and the adaptation he has made is incalculable.

La letteratura come menzogna

Quando apparve los angeles letteratura come menzo­
gna (1967), l. a. scena letteraria italiana si
presentava piuttosto agitata. Lo spazio period
diviso fra i difensori di un establishmentche
vantava come glorie opere spesso medio­
cri e i propugnatori della «neo-avanguar-
dia», i quali non si erano accorti che l. a. pa­
rola «avanguardia» period stata appena colpi­
ta da una benefica senescenza. in step with ragio­
ni di topografia e strategia letteraria, Man­
ganelli fu assegnato (e si assegnò egli stes­
so) a quest’ultimo campo. Nondimeno, sin
dai suoi primi scritti, si capì che l. a. lettera­
tura di Manganelli non apparteneva a quel­
la battaglia dei pupi, ma rivendicava u n ’a­
scendenza più rem ota e insolente: quella
della letteratura assoluta. Che cosa si dovrà
intendere con questa espressione? Tante
cose assorted quanti sono gli autori che, e-
splicitamente o no, los angeles praticano. Ma un
presupposto è in step with tutti comune: si è dato,
a un certo punto della nostra storia, un sin­
golare fenomeno in line with cui tutto ciò che period
rigorosa ricerca e acquisizione di un vero -teologico, metafisico, scientifico - apparve
innanzitutto interessante in quanto mate­
riale, in line with nutrire un falso,una finzione per­
fetta e onniawolgente quale è, nella sua
ultima essenza, los angeles letteratura. A questo dio
oscuro e severo andava offerto tutto ciò
che sino allora aveva presunto di essere
giustificato in se stesso. Di questa ambizio­
sa eresia si può supporre fossero cultori, in
secoli lontani, Callimaco o Góngora o for-
s’anche Ovidio. Ma rimane il fatto che nes­
suno osò formularla sino a tempi recenti,
quando i romantici tedeschi cominciaro­
no a disarticolare con mano delicata ogni
presupposto dell’estetica. Come il surrea­
lismo non può dirsi assente anche da lette­
rature lontane, e tuttavia occorreva che un
giorno André Breton scrivesse il Manifesto
del surrealismoperché los angeles parola si divulgas­
se; così è accaduto che l’essenza menzo­
gnera della letteratura sia serpeggiata according to
anni in tante opere, sinché Manganelli de­
cise, con gesto brusco e quasi burocratico,
di presentarla allo stato civile. E dunque
molto grave l. a. responsabilità che si prese,
dando quel titolo a una raccolta di saggi
dove si parla di Carroll e di Stevenson, di
Firbank e di Nabokov, di Dickens e di Pea-
cock, di Dumas e di Rolfe. Ma period un gesto
doveroso: lo avvertiamo tanto più oggi, nel
constatare che certe argomentazioni non
hanno più bisogno di essere confutate. Già
le aveva infilzate il cavalier Manganelli con
la sua lancia. E accaduto perciò a questo
libro, in breve pace, qualcosa di simile a
quello che avviene a tanti bei libri in tempi
più lunghi. Nascere come scandalo e sor­
presa, e vivere poi tranquillamente con los angeles
forza silenziosa dell’evidenza.

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It seems to me that we are confronting a huge institutional blind spot in philosophy, or perhaps a cultural blind spot whose symptom is the name ‘Derrida’ and which explains some of the embarrassing cultural epiphenomena we have witnessed in the UK and the US over the years, the most recent distressing example being the awful New York Times obituary which ran with the headline, ‘Jacques Derrida, abstruse theorist, dies at 74’. It seems to me that the entire intellectual and cultural formation of the resistance to Derrida is a phenomenon that requires careful deconstruction.

Not altogether without hope, though; since acting out of responsibility to, and in affirming, the other is always acting out of responsibility towards, and affirming, the future. 13 Abraham’s decision to kill Isaac evinces immense trust in the future, a trust which goes contrary to all predictability – for what is predictable is the instantaneous cancellation of the promised future of blessed generations. We are not yet at the end of the difficulties that beset any attempt at responsible behaviour, however.

A very famous American philosopher, sympathetic to Derrida, once said to me, ‘he never knows when to stop or how to come to an end’. Derrida: the reader 11 In the interview with Le Monde, he describes himself as being at war with himself, ‘je suis en guerre contre moi-meˆ me’. He was always on the move intellectually, always hungry for new objects of analysis, accepting new invitations, confronting new contexts, addressing new audiences, writing new books. His ability in discussion simply to listen and to synthesise new theories, hypotheses and phenomena and produce long, detailed and fascinating analyses in response was breathtaking.

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