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One of Derrida's most complex, intriguing and challenging texts, Glas is a work of resounding importance for literature, for philosophy, for literature, and for the relationship between the two. This collection of essays, featuring leading scholars in the field, seeks to trace its resonance four decades after its publication. A number of interconnected problems and themes will be examined, including Derrida's deconstruction of the Hegelian interpretation of Antigone, the philosophy and politics of familial and civil life, questions of sexual difference and dissidence, the question of the signature, the complex role played by figuration and language, and the continuing relevance of Glas today. While some of the essays undertake rigorous close readings of the text, at the same time as tracing the limits of such reading as they are indeed anticipated by Glas itself, others take this work as the occasion to explore its reverberations in other writings and in a host of topics and problems germane not only to literary and philosophical studies, but to cultural and political worlds far beyond the confines of academia.
Contributors to the volume include Geoffrey Bennington, Tina Chanter, Mairéad Hanrahan, Leslie Hill, Catherine Malabou, Martin McQuillan, J. Hillis Miller and Simon Morgan Wortham
List of contents
Resounding Glas
Mairéad Hanrahan, Martin McQuillan and Simon Morgan Wortham
On First Looking Into Derrida's Glas
J. Hillis Miller
Fleeced
Simon Morgan Wortham
Double Signature
Mairéad Hanrahan
From Deconstruction to Disaster (Derrida, Blanchot, Hegel)
Leslie Hill
Does Antigone stand or fall in relation to Hegel's master-slave dialectic? A Response to Derrida's Glas
Tina Chanter
Clarity and Doubt: Derrida Among the Palestinians
Martin McQuillan
Philosophy in Erection
Catherine Malabou
Notes Towards a Discussion of Method and Metaphor in Glas
Geoffrey Bennington
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Mairéad Hanrahan is Professor of French at University College London. She is Editor of the journal
Paragraph.Martin McQuillan was Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis at the London Graduate School and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. His recent publications include Deconstruction After 9/11(London: Routledge, 2008) and Roland Barthes, or, The Profession of Cultural Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and Pro Vice Chancellor Dean, Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University.
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One of Derrida's most complex, intriguing and challenging texts, Glas is a work of resounding importance for literature, for philosophy, for literature, and for the relationship between the two. This collection of essays, featuring leading scholars in the field, seeks to trace its resonance four decades after its publication
