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Zusatztext Brilliant, beautiful and radically independent. I have long awaited such a lucid and comprehensive treatment of Derrida's scattered confessions of marranism. This exquisite exposition of marrano experience is equally at home in Derrida and kindred stories that Derrida did not know. Informationen zum Autor Agata Bielik-Robson is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham. Her publications include: The Saving Lie. Harold Bloom and Deconstruction (Northwestern University Press, 2011), Judaism in Contemporary Thought. Traces and Influence (coedited with Adam Lipszyc, Routledge, 2014), Philosophical Marranos. Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity (Routledge, 2014) and Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Vorwort The first book devoted to Derrida’s Marranism – his paradoxical ‘non-Jewish Jewishness’ – connecting it to the Derridean themes of exile, survival, betrayal and autobiography. Zusammenfassung In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida’s ‘Toledo confession’ – where he portrayed himself as ‘sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture’ – Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida’s marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks at all possible aspects of Derrida’s Marrano identification in order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as Marranos cannot be characterized as either Jewish or Christian, so is Derrida’s ‘universal Marranism’ an invitation to think philosophically, politically and – last but not least – metaphysically without rigid categories of identity and belonging.By concentrating on Derrida’s deliberate choice of marranismo , Bielik-Robson shows that it penetrates deep into the very core of his late thinking, constantly drawing on the literary works of Kafka, Celan, Joyce, Cixous and Valéry, and throws a new light on his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology , Dissemination and 'Différance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of many of Derrida’s works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano issue, like Glas , G iven Time: Counterfeit Money , Death Penalty Seminar , and Specters of Marx . In these new readings, this book demonstrates that the Marrano Derrida is not a marginal auto-biographical figure overshadowed by Derrida the Philosopher: it is one and the same thinker who discovered marranismo as a literary trope of openness, offering up a new genre of philosophical story-telling which centers around Derrida’s Marrano ‘auto-fable’. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Marrano Uncanny – The Last and the First of Jews1. Betray, Betray Again, Betray Better : Marrano Theology of Survival2. Secret Followers of the Hiding God: Marrano A-Theism3. The Nameless Still Life: Marrano Metaphysics of Non-Presence 4. Two Serious Marranos: Derrida and Cixous (with Constant Reference to Poldy Bloom)5. Ana-Community: Marrano 'Living Together' Bibliography ...
