In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and Salut

Christopher Elson (Ph.D. 1995, University of Paris-IV) is Associate Professor of French at Dalhousie University. Author, translator and editor of articles and volumes on contemporary French culture including translator and editor of Michel Deguy’s A Man of Little Faith (2014).Garry Sherbert (Ph.D. 1992, University of Alberta), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Regina. He has published articles on Derrida, and books on Menippean satire, Canadian culture, including Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance (2010).

• ContentsPrefaceAdelaide RussoAcknowledgmentsForeword: Of Friendship with Derrida Michel DeguyAbbreviationsTranslator’s NotePolemical Introduction1 The Poetics of Friendship2 “The Sacred Without the Sacred”: Salut and the Metonymy of Poetic Nomination3 Of Contemporaneity: A Talk for Jacques DerridaMichel Deguy4 The Poet’s Duty: Michel Deguy’s Deconstructive PoethicsChristopher Elson5 How to NameJacques Derrida6 Calling Names: Derrida, Deguy, and SpectropoeticsGarry Sherbert7 “A Religion of the Event”: Salut, Ethics, and Quasi-Atheistic TranscendenceConclusionAppendix of Additional Texts by Michel DeguyBibliographyIndex

"This lengthy, sophisticated, and complex book by Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert includes previously untranslated essays by Jacques Derrida (‘How to Name’) and Michel Deguy (‘Of Contemporaneity’); it is a celebration of the long friendship between these two thinker-poets, and their dialogue on a number of topics including (their) friendship. [...] this is a substantial contribution, and will be helpful for those working in the field to consult."br/>Judith Still, University of Nottingham, French Studies, 73-2, April 2019.