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Cinders / Jacques Derrida ; Translated by Ned Lukacher ; Introduction by Cary Wolfe.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: P304 .D4713 2014

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    " "More than fifteen years ago," Jacques Derrida writes in the prologue to this remarkable and uniquely revealing book, "a phrase came to me, as though in spite of me. It imposed itself upon me with the authority, so discreet and simple it was, of a judgment: cinders there are (il y a là cendre). I had to explain myself to it, respond to it--or for it." In Cinders Derrida ranges across his work from the previous twenty years and discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. For Derrida, cinders or ashes--at once fragile and resilient--are "the better paradigm for what I call the trace--something that erases itself totally, radically, while presenting itself." In a style that is both highly condensed and elliptical, Cinders offers probing reflections on the relation of language to truth, writing, the voice, and the complex connections between the living and the dead. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust (both a word--from the Greek holos, "whole," and kaustos, "burnt"--and a historical event that invokes ashes) in contemporary poetry and philosophy. In turning from the texts of other philosophers to his own, Cinders enables readers to follow the trajectory from Derrida's early work on the trace, the gramma, and the voice to his later writings on life, death, time, and the spectral. Among the most accessible of this renowned philosopher's many writings, Cinders is an evocative and haunting work of poetic self-analysis that deepens our understanding of Derrida's critical and philosophical vision. "-- Provided by publisher.
    Uniform Title
    Feu la cendre. English
    Series
    Posthumanities ; 28
    Posthumanities ; 28.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Derrida, Jacques.
    Published
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014
    Edition
    First University of Mennesota Press edition
    Other Authors/Editors
    Lukacher, Ned, 1950-
    Notes
    Translation of: Feu la cendre.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Translated from the French.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780816689538
    0816689539
    9780816689545
    0816689547
    Physical Description
    xxx, 66 pages ; 22 cm.

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