Phantoms of the Other - Four Generations of DerridaÆs Geschlecht

Informationen zum Autor David Farrell Krell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Brauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of German Studies at Brown University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg. He is the author of many books, including Struck by Apollo: Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond and A Black Forest Walden: Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando, both by SUNY Press . Klappentext Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger's philosophy. During the 1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and published three incisive essays under the title Geschlecht , a German word for "generation" and "sexuality." These essays focused on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, taking up the rarely discussed issue of sexual difference in Heidegger's thought. A fourth essay-actually the third in the series-was never completed and never published. In Phantoms of the Other , David Farrell Krell reconstructs this third Geschlecht on the basis of archival materials and puts it in the context of the entire series. Touching on the themes of sexual difference, poetics, politics, and criticism as practiced by Heidegger, Derrida's unfinished third essay offers a penetrating critical analysis of Heidegger's views on sexuality and Heidegger's reading of the love poems of Georg Trakl, one of the greatest Expressionist poets of the German language, who died during the opening days of the First World War.

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• Authors: David Farrell Krell, Krell David Farrell
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2015
• EAN: 9781438454498
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5449-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Co; SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Suny Contemporary Continental
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism