In Memory of Jacques Derrida

Nicholas Royle

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

In Memory of Jacques Derrida

Nicholas Royle

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748632282

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Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was the most original and inspiring writer and philosopher of our time. In a series of distinctive essays that are at once self-contained and intricately linked, Royle explores the legacies of Derrida's thinking in the context of philosophy, language, globalisation, war, terrorism, justice, the democracy to come, poetry, literature, memory, mourning, the gift, friendship and dreams. Lucid, inventive and at times funny, Royle allows us to appreciate how much Derrida's work has altered the ways we read and think. Autobiography, children's literature, the Gothic and modernist fiction, for example, figure together with philosophy, queer studies, speech act theory and psychoanalysis. The writings of Horace Walpole, Herman Melville, E. M. Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Joe Brainard and David McKee are illuminatingly put in play alongside Shakespeare.

Royle's book suggests that one of Derrida's most profound legacies has to do with the combination of responsibility and freedom his work inspires for both reading and writing. In Memory of Jacques Derrida offers an exceptionally clear overview of Derrida's work, while also tracing directions in which it might productively be read in the future.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Poet: Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Not Now Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Or Again, Meddling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Derrida’s Event Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
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Jacques Derrida’s Language (Bin Laden on the Telephone) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Impossible Uncanniness: Deconstruction and Queer Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: March 20, 2009
ISBN: 9780748632282