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Zusatztext Who ! or better yet! what speaks in 'literature' for Derrida? This long-awaited book offers thought-provoking answers to this question! examined here through close readings of Derrida's countersignatures to writers such as Baudelaire! Kafka! Celan! Joyce! Blanchot! Beckett! and Cixous. Neither a theory nor a critical method! Derrida's approach gives us something else to ponder: the conditions of the impossible enacted by the event of literature. This impressive volume thus allows us to better understand how Derrida reconfigures the concept of modernity! beyond all labels! genres! or periodizations. Moreover! this book is itself a remarkable and timely contribution to the 'humanities to come' Derrida so pressingly called for. Whether it concern the Law! the absolute singularity of the other! the secret and testimony! or democracy! literature always lies affirmatively and performatively at the very core of Derrida's thought. Informationen zum Autor Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Rabaté has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound, and Joyce. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literature (2014), The Pathos of Distance (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Rust (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is one of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature . Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Zusammenfassung This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not “modern”; neither is it “postmodern” nor simply “modernist.” They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a “modern” notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida’s affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others.With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction : Derrida’s modernity and our modernism Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA Part 1. Rethinking the main concepts of modernism 1. Trickster Economy: Derrida’s Baudelaire, and the Role of Money, Counterfeits, and Alms in the Modern City Marit Grøtta, University of Oslo, Norway 2. Kant’s Celestial Economy; a Footnote to The Gift of Death Eddis N. Miller, Pace University, USA 3. Derrida and Kafka: A Talmudic Disputation Before the Law Vivian Liska, Antwerp University, Belgium 4. Derrida with Heidegger: Poetic Language, Animality, World Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Fordham University, USA 5. To Wound the Language: Derrida Reads Celan Miriam Jerade, University of Mexico, Mexico Part 2. Engaging with the poetics of canonical modernism 6. Derrida’s Joyce Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin 7. Derrida re-voicing Artaud Alhelí Alvarado, Columbia University, USA 8. Derrida on Bataille: from dueling to duet Claire Lozier, University of Leeds, UK 9. A Cross in the margin, Inscription and Erasure in Derrida and Pound Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia 10. Derrida after Valéry (after Derrida) Suzanne Guerlac, University of C...
