Research Catalog

Title

Advances / Jacques Derrida ; translated and with an introduction by Philippe Lynes.

Author

Derrida, Jacques

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lynes, Philippe

Description

xlvii, 54 pages; 17 cm

Summary

Originally published in 1995, Advances was first written by Jacques Derrida as a long foreword to a book by one of his most promising former students, the philosopher Serge Margel's Le Tombeau du Dieu Artisan (The Tomb of the Craftsman or ). What Derrida uncovers for us is Margel's own unique theory of the promise in relation to an an-archic, pre-chronological temporality, in conjunction with Margel's radical rereading of Plato's Timaeus. As Derrida states right away, Margel's reading is a new one, a new reading of the Demiurge. A new promise. A new advance. In this magisterial late essay by Derrida, what the reader soon discovers is in part a conversation with his former student, as well as an opening for a new reflection on our current ecological and political crises that are all the more urgent today where the possibility of giving ourselves death as a human race and the end of the world is now, within an era of climate change, more real than ever. As part of Univocal's Pharmakon series, this essay, itself published in advance, becomes a brief but powerful light pointing toward Univocal's forthcoming publication of the translation of Serge Margel's Le Tombeau du Dieu Artisan. "Once again the Timaeus, of course, but a different Timaeus, a new Demiurge, I promise."--Google Books

Series Statement

Univocal

Uniform Title

Avances. English

Alternative Title

Avances.

Subjects

• Cosmology, Ancient
• Timaeus (Plato)
• Plato > Timaeus
• Margel, Serge > Tombeau du Dieu artisan

Note

• "A Univocal book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

ADVANCES -- 0. The Forbearers -- 1. The Ci-Devant God -- 2. Eve and Inoperativity: One Time before the Other -- 3. The Countertime of Philosophy (Prolegomena to a Theory of the Promise) -- 4. Epinoia: The Countertime of Religion -- 5. Threatening Promise: The Before-First Persons.

Call Number

JFC 18-341

ISBN

• 9781517904265
• 1517904269

LCCN

2017051219

OCLC

1010655771

Author

Derrida, Jacques, author.

Title

Advances / Jacques Derrida ; translated and with an introduction by Philippe Lynes.

Publisher

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Univocal

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Lynes, Philippe, translator.

Research Call Number

JFC 18-341