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050 00 P304 |b.D4713 2014
100 1  Derrida, Jacques.
240 10 Feu la cendre. |lEnglish
245 10 Cinders / |cJacques Derrida ; Translated by Ned Lukacher ; Introduction by Cary Wolfe.
250    First University of Mennesota Press edition.
264  1 Minneapolis : |bUniversity of Minnesota Press, |c2014.
300    xxx, 66 pages ; |c22 cm.
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
490 1  Posthumanities ; |v28
500    Translation of: Feu la cendre.
504    Includes bibliographical references.
520    " "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. "-- |cProvided by publisher.
546    Translated from the French.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Plays on words.
650  0 Homonyms.
650  0 Ambiguity.
700 1  Lukacher, Ned, |d1950-
830  0 Posthumanities ; |v28.
852 0   |bstacks |hP304 |i.D4713 2014