Desire in Ashes

Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Simon Wortham, Chiara Alfano, Simon Morgan Wortham

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The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well.Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-12-17
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472529138

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List of contributorsIntroductionSimon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano Chapter 1Ashes to Ashes: Derrida’s HolocaustGil Anidjar Chapter 2‘There shall be no mourning’Simon Morgan Wortham Chapter 3 Transference Love in the Age of ‘Isms’ Herman Rapaport Chapter 4Kindling; or, Suicide by FireElissa Marder Chapter 5 Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and FerencziLynn Turner Chapter 6 Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida’s ‘Freud and the Scene of Writing’Céline Surprenant Chapter 7 The Desire for Survival?Kas Saghafi Chapter 8 The King is Dead! Long Live the King!Chiara Alfano

Desire—which can never go out of fashion, never cease to move, never settle finally on its proper object—and “deconstruction,” a term, a movement, an intellectual style, a form of thought surely time-stamped, maybe even expired. This marvellous collection of essays shows us that deconstruction’s long, unthought concern with desire—primarily in Derrida’s work, but also in his closest readers’, American as well as European—lets us think beyond its seeming end; and how desire’s stubborn persistence, its endlessness, inasmuch as it is deconstruction in act and thought, infuses the work of religion, philosophy, ethics, and historiography. Desire in Ashes realigns thought: it is scholarship at its most consequential and urgent.