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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
023112824X
ISBN-13
9780231128247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038268883
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Portrait of Jacques Derrida As a Young Jewish Saint
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Movements / Deconstruction, Judaism / General, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
Series
European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-055415
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Portrait of Jacques Derridais a rarity, a singular and powerful addition to Cixous' own important oeuvre." -- Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, "Catches precisely the destabilizing effect of Derrida's practice." -- Josh Cohen, Times Literary Supplement, Her commentary, helps to illuminate some of the gnarled, complex recesses of Derrida's thought and as such will go far in clarifying his often punishing difficult writing., "For anyone who is looking for a way of understanding Derrida but is intimidated by his writings, this is a good place to start." -- Oliver Leaman, Journal of Jewish Studies, Portrait of Jacques Derrida is a rarity, a singular and powerful addition to Cixous' own important oeuvre., The book will have a special status within Derrida studies.... The most striking thing in Cixous's writing is the sense that something very confidential is being disclosed., " Portrait of Jacques Derrida is a rarity, a singular and powerful addition to Cixous' own important oeuvre." -- Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, For anyone who is looking for a way of understanding Derrida but is intimidated by his writings, this is a good place to start., "Her commentary, helps to illuminate some of the gnarled, complex recesses of Derrida's thought and as such will go far in clarifying his often punishing difficult writing." -- Saul Austerlitz, Forward, "The book will have a special status within Derrida studies.... The most striking thing in Cixous's writing is the sense that something very confidential is being disclosed." -- Devorah Baum, Jewish Quarterly
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
194
Table Of Content
The Mark of the Prince Namesakes--No! No's by the Bucketful Of the Kleins and the Grosses The Dream of Naivete Remain/The Child That I Am Point of Honor/Point Donor Circumfictions of a Circumcision Objector The Orchard and the Fishery Second Skin
Synopsis
A kaleidoscopic portrait of Derrida's life and works through the prism of his Jewish heritage, by a leading feminist thinker and close personal friend. From the circumcision act to family relationships, through Derrida's works to those of Celan, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais, Cixous effortlessly merges biography and textual commentary in this playful portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish., Who can say "I am Jewish?" What does "Jew" mean? What especially does it mean for Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstruction, scoffer at boundaries and fixed identities, explorer of the indeterminate and undecidable? In Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint , French feminist philosopher H l ne Cixous follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of one of the greatest living philosophers. Cixous is a lifelong friend of Derrida. They both grew up as French Jews in Algeria and share a "belonging constituted of exclusion and nonbelonging"--not Algerian, rejected by France, their Jewishness concealed or acculturated. In Derrida's family "one never said 'circumcision'but 'baptism, 'not 'Bar Mitzvah'but 'communion.'" Judaism cloaked in Catholicism is one example of the undecidability of identity that influenced the thinker whom Cixous calls a "Jewish Saint." An intellectual contemporary of Derrida, Cixous's ideas on writing have an affinity with his philosophy of deconstruction, which sought to overturn binary oppositions--such as man/woman, or Jew/non-Jew--and blur boundaries of exclusion inherent in Western thought. In portraying Derrida, Cixous uses metonymy, alliteration, rhyme, neologisms, and puns to keep the text in constant motion, freeing language from any rigidity of meaning. In this way she writes a portrait of "Derrida in flight," slipping from one appearance to the next, unable to be fixed in one spot, yet encompassing each point he passes. From the circumcision act to family relationships, through Derrida's works to those of Celan, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais, Cixous effortlessly merges biography and textual commentary in this playful portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish., Who can say "I am Jewish?" What does "Jew" mean? What especially does it mean for Jacques Derrida, founder of deconstruction, scoffer at boundaries and fixed identities, explorer of the indeterminate and undecidable? In Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint , French feminist philosopher Hélène Cixous follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of one of the greatest living philosophers. Cixous is a lifelong friend of Derrida. They both grew up as French Jews in Algeria and share a "belonging constituted of exclusion and nonbelonging"--not Algerian, rejected by France, their Jewishness concealed or acculturated. In Derrida's family "one never said 'circumcision'but 'baptism,'not 'Bar Mitzvah'but 'communion.'" Judaism cloaked in Catholicism is one example of the undecidability of identity that influenced the thinker whom Cixous calls a "Jewish Saint." An intellectual contemporary of Derrida, Cixous's ideas on writing have an affinity with his philosophy of deconstruction, which sought to overturn binary oppositions--such as man/woman, or Jew/non-Jew--and blur boundaries of exclusion inherent in Western thought. In portraying Derrida, Cixous uses metonymy, alliteration, rhyme, neologisms, and puns to keep the text in constant motion, freeing language from any rigidity of meaning. In this way she writes a portrait of "Derrida in flight," slipping from one appearance to the next, unable to be fixed in one spot, yet encompassing each point he passes. From the circumcision act to family relationships, through Derrida's works to those of Celan, Rousseau, and Beaumarchais, Cixous effortlessly merges biography and textual commentary in this playful portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish.
LC Classification Number
B2430.D484C5913 2003
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