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| Title | : | Without Alibi (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804744114 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-02 |
| Language | : | French |
This inventive analysis is followed by "Typewriter Ribbon," which examines at length the famous lie recounted by Rousseau in his Confessions, when he perjured himself by accusing another of his own crime. Resistance to the sovereign cruelty of the death penalty is just one of the stakes indicated by the last essay, which is the text of a keynote address to the "States General of Psychoanalysis" held in Paris, July 2000.Especially for this volume, Derrida has written "Provocation: Forewords," which reflects on the title Without Alibi while taking up questions about relations between deconstruction and America. "Le parjure, Perhaps" engages with a remarkable novel by Henri Thomas that fictionalizes the charge of perjury brought against Paul de Man in the 1950s. This acute awareness of the limits of performative programs informs the essays throughout and attunes them closely to events of a world undergoing "globalization."The first essay, "History of the Lie," reviews some classic and modern definitions of the lie (Augustine,
Etienne RP said Seeing the World Spirit in a Cigar. Without Alibi, it is said in the foreword, is a very American book. What makes it so? Several explanations are listed. The five essays bound in this volume were published separately in their original French. They were collected by the American editor, Peggy Kamuf, who wrote
Derrida argues forcefully that thought must engage with the im-possible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolute future still to come. This inventive analysis is followed by "Typewriter Ribbon," which examines at length the famous lie recounted by Rousseau in his Confessions, when he perjured himself by accusing another of his own crime. Resistance to the sovereign cruelty of the death penalty is just one of the stakes indicated by the last essay, which is the text of a keynote address to the "States General of Psychoanalysis" held in Paris, July 2000.Especially for this volume, Derrida has written "Provocation: Forewords," w
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