- Additional Authors
- Lukacher, Ned, 1950-
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxx, 66 pages)
- Summary
- " "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. "--
- Series Statement
- Posthumanities ; 28
- Uniform Title
- Feu la cendre. English (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Feu la cendre.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Feu la cendre.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2014007469
- OCLC
- ssj0001592773
- Author
Derrida, Jacques.
- Title
Cinders [electronic resource] / Jacques Derrida ; Translated by Ned Lukacher ; Introduction by Cary Wolfe.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Edition
First University of Mennesota Press edition.
- Series
Posthumanities ; 28
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Lukacher, Ned, 1950-