Artaud the Moma

Jacques Derrida

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Artaud the Moma

Jacques Derrida
Translated by: Peggy Kamuf
Afterword by: Kaira M. Cabañas

In the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

https://doi.org/10.7312/derr18166

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About this book

In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art on Antonin Artaud. Artaud the Moma reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida—and to art and its institutional history. It is a powerful interjection into the museum halls, a crucial moment in Derrida’s thought, and an insightful reading of a challenging writer and artist.

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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was one of the twentieth century's most prolific and influential philosophers. He was director at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Kaira M. Cabañas is associate professor of global modern and contemporary art history at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

Denis Hollier, New York University:
One of Derrida's most extraordinarily deep and virtuosic texts and one of the best ever written about Artaud.

Sylvère Lotringer, Emeritus Professor of French, Columbia University, and general editor of Semiotext(e):
Derrida's analysis of Artaud the Mômo and of Artaud's final works is truly unprecedented. It is the most amazing attempt ever written—brilliant, baroque, unstoppable—to confront the mad poet's vociferations and relentless scatology in their own terms while resisting his metaphysical rage for reappropriation.

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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9780231543705