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Posthumously
For Jacques Derrida
| Zsuzsa Baross |
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| Zsuzsa Baross is
an associate professor in the Cultural Studies Program at Trent
University, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches Film Studies
and Critical Theory. She is the author of The Scandal of
Disease in Theory and Discourse (University of Amsterdam,
1988) and has also published a wide number of essays in anthologies
and journals, including International Studies in Philosophy,
New Literary History, Deleuze Studies and Derrida Today.
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In 2004, Jacques Derrida gave one of his final interviews prior to his death. Regarding the future of his work, Derrida advanced two contradictory hypotheses: “I will not be read”; and “despite a handful of good readers…I am yet to be read”. This book is an homage to the spirit of Derrida, and seeks to grasp the significance of his death on the rich corpus of his work, in a voice that remains true to the “faithful betrayals” of Derrida’s own works of deconstuction.
… Two key journeys underpin Posthumously. The first
is an exploration of both Derrida and deconstruction through the
unusual prism of cinema and photography, bringing into play Gilles
Deleuze’s concept of creative repetition. In the second journey,
the author embarks on a detailed engagement with Derrida’s oft-neglected
book on drawing, Memoirs of the Blind, and provides a subversive
reading of that text, arguing that its labyrinthine turns (confession,
self-portrait, and mourning) obscure a secret ambition to stage
the last battle between its own graphic trait and the image in full
colour. Beneath this vivid canopy, Zsuzsa Baross brings together
a collection of shorter pieces developing the meaning of the term
–posthumous– in the world of writing and literary criticism, interrogating
Derrida’s posthumous lesson on “learning to live”.
… The final act in this unique volume analyzes Derrida’s last
hand-written note; a note, the author argues, that reopens the question
of the posthumous and provides an infinitely moving lesson on life.
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Acknowledgements
1 Preface — The Posthumous
2 Fragments
Two Versions of the Image
3 Toward a Memory of the Future: Cinema, Memory,
History
i Hors-Texte
ii Projection—a method
iii Three Projections
iv Postscript
4 The Image and the “Trait”
i Foreword
ii Exhibition(s)
iii Self-portrait(s)
iv Between the Lines
v The Question of Color
5 Postscript—L’Arrêt de Mort
Works Cited
Index
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“Zsuzsa Baross
writes about Derrida in a sensitive, deep, and probing way. The
essays are beautifully written, sharing Derrida's playfulness and
difficulty, eloquently and evocatively. This is an intimate reading
of some of Derrida's thoughts on writing, memory, time, living,
and dying. It is moving, highly informative, genuinely caring.”
Stephen David Ross, author of the six-volume Gift series (SUNY
Press and Global Academic Publishing)
“Baross writes with grace, precision
and intensity. In a series of meditative explications of Derridean
texts — including extended and profound exegeses of Memoirs
of the Blind and Archive Fever — she traces the complex unfolding
of such key concepts as time, memory, image and event with unstinting
rigor and intellectual energy. This is philosophical writing of
the highest order.” Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia,
author of Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History
(Edinburgh University Press) |
Publication Details
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Hardback ISBN: |
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978-1-84519-432-1 |
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172 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
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Release Date: |
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March 2011 |
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Hardback Price: |
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£45.00 / $62.50 |
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