The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning write by Timothy Secret. This book was released on 2015-02-26. The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century's three key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing that none of these three figures' discourses offers us a complete account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries. This is one of the first monographs to pay particular attention to the key role any contemporary account of the ethics of eulogy must grant to the revolutionary theoretical work on the materiality of crypts and phantoms offered by the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Their work is shown to supplement major limitations in traditional philosophical accounts of the ethical relation. The account of eulogy as a privileged space where different discourses act on each other under the pressure of responding responsibly to an always singular loss proves itself essential reading not only for those interested in understanding Derrida's overtly political works, but also offers an account of a performative training in negotiating aporias that arise in political society – the result of which is a pedagogy in the art of civility whose relevance today is more timely than ever.
The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning
The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning write by T. R. Secret. This book was released on 2012. The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Loss
Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loss write by David L. Eng. This book was released on 2003. Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If catastrophe is not representable according to the narrative explanations which would ‘make sense’ of history, then making sense of ourselves and charting the future are not impossible. But we are, as it were, marked for life, and that mark is insuperable, irrecoverable. It becomes the condition by which life is risked, by which the question of whether one can move, and with whom, and in what way is framed and incited by the irreversibility of loss itself."—Judith Butler, from the Afterword "Loss is a wonderful volume: powerful and important, deeply moving and intellectually challenging at the same time, ethical and not moralistic. It is one of those rare collections that work as a multifaceted whole to map new areas for inquiry and pose new questions. I found myself educated and provoked by the experience of participating in an ongoing dialogue."—Amy Kaplan, author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
American Mourning
American Mourning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Mourning write by Simon Stow. This book was released on 2017-07-25. American Mourning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.
The Reproduction of Life Death
The Reproduction of Life Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reproduction of Life Death write by Dawne McCance. This book was released on 2019-07-02. The Reproduction of Life Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1975–76 academic year, Jacques Derrida delivered a seminar, La vie la mort (Life Death), at the École normale supérieure, in Paris. Based on archival translations of this untapped but soon-to-be-published seminar, The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement with molecular biology and genetics, particularly the work of the biologist François Jacob. Structured as an itinerary of “three rings,” each departing from and coming back to Nietzsche, Derrida’s seminar ties Jacob’s logocentric account of reproduction to the reproductive program of teaching that characterizes the academic institution, challenging this mode of teaching as auto-reproduction along with the concept of “academic freedom” on which it is based. McCance also brings Derrida’s critique of Jacob’s theory of auto-reproduction together with his reading of reproductivity, the tendency to repeat-reproduce, that is theorized and enacted in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The book further shows how Derrida’s account of life death relates to his writings on autobiography and the signature and to such later concerns as the question of the animal. McCance brings extensive archival research together with a deep knowledge of Derrida’s work a background in genetics to offer a fascinating new account of an encounter between philosophy and the hard sciences that will be of interest to theorists in a wide range of disciplines concerned with the question of life.
