Derrida, Literature and War argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking today about war and literature. Sean Gaston starts by marking Derrida's attempts to resist the philosophical tradition of calculating on absence as an assured resource, while insisting on the (mis)chances of the chance encounter. Gaston re-examines the relation between the concept of war and the chances of literature by focusing on narratives of conflict set during the Napoleonic wars. These chance encounters or duels can help us think again about the sovereign attempt to leave the enemy nameless or to name what cannot be named in the midst of wars without end. His study includes new readings of a range of writers, including Aristotle, Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Clausewitz, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Conrad, Freud, Heidegger, Blanchot, Foucault, Deleuze and Agamben. Offering an authoritative reading of Derrida's oeuvre and new insights into a range of writers in philosophy and literature, this is a timely and ambitious study of philosophy, literature, politics and ethics.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781847065537
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94430890
Product Key Features
Book Title
Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting
Author
SEAN Gaston
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
SEAN Gaston
Series Title
Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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