Sovereignties In Question: The Poetics Of Paul Celan (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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This intense confrontation between the most famous philosopher of our time and the Jewish poet writing in German who, perhaps more powerfully than any other, has testified to the European experience of the twentieth century, brings together four powerful encounters between Jacques Derrida and the poetry of Paul Celan. Included in Sovereignties in Question are the 1984 text "Schibboleth;" a 2000 essay that engages Celan poems as witness or testimony; an interview from 2001; a discussion of Celan's "Meridian" lecture from Derrida's 2001-2002 Paris seminar; and "Rams," his 2003 memorial lecture for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Central themes include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; temporal structures of futurity and the "to come"; the multiplicity of language and questions of translation; such speech acts as witness, promise, and testimony, but also lying and perjury; the possibility of the impossible; and, above all, the question of the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge, seeking to speak to and for the irreducible other. The memory of encounters with thinkers who have also engaged Celan's work lace these writings, including a brilliant engagement between two interpretative modes-hermeneutics and deconstruction. Derrida's approach to a poem is a revelation on many levels, from the most concrete ways of reading-for example, his analysis of a sequence of personal pronouns-to the most sweeping imperatives of human existence (and Derrida's writings are always a study in how such distinctions break down). Above all, he voices the call to responsibility in the ultimate line of Celan's poem: "The world is gone, I must carry you," which sounds throughout this final essay like a refrain.
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Jacques Derrida's recent writings include Counter-Paths, Eyes of the University, For What Tomorrow? (with Elisabeth Roudinesco), Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi, and Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews.
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Sovereignties In Question: The Poetics Of Paul Celan (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy),Jacques Derrida,Thomas Dutoit,Outi Pasanen,Fordham University Press,0823224384,Aesthetics,Celan, Paul,Criticism,General,Movements - Deconstruction,Philosophy,Poetry
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