...This chapter explores the issue of friendship in Derrida's writings. It starts by considering the analysis of the phenomena of mourning and melancholia suggested by Freud and Derrida. It discusses how Derrida—both in Memoires and in his article “Like the Sound of the Sea Deep within...

... Martin reading writing Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friderich Phenomenology of Spirit Enlightenment freedom pedagogy Rousseau Jean Jacques social contract theory Fichte interpretation Kant letter and spirit philosophical writing Well over two centuries after Kant completed his critical trilogy...

...This chapter takes up the vexed question of authorial voice. Sometimes the writing voice is seen as stylized but disembodied, evidence for the silencing of voice by print. Here a contrary argument for the bodily sense of text, especially in movement and accent, is laid out. Using the examples...

... for flirtation implies is twofold: First, flirtation is taken out of the context of interpersonal relationships and opened up to become an aesthetic concept of life; second, to the extent that in Felix Krull it is impossible to separate life from the autobiographical project, the act of writing itself...

..., intervene in, critique, and transform the conceptual terrain they have inherited. Each entry, either implicitly or explicitly, attempts to re-open the question “What is political thinking?” Each is an effort to reinvent political writing. In this setting the political as such may be understood as a property...

..., is interpreted by 19^th century German language scientists as a powerful tool for explicating the structuring energy of their language. Primal poetry, philologically reconstructed, thus comes to operate as a projection screen for language scientific fantasies about the writing (down) of language spirit...

... in the domain of language science, where the terminology of synchrony and diachrony first explicitly emerges. The Writing of Spirit sets out to demonstrate, via a new history of language science, that we do not know what we think we know about this pivotal juncture in our intellectual past...

...This chapter explores writers' often-conflicted or ambivalent feelings about their own books. It draws on an array of interviews with literary critics, including M. H. Abrams, Walter Benn Michaels, Judith Halberstam, and Wayne Koestenbaum. Literary criticism Writing books Book publishing...

... theory in Derrida’s corpus. Particular attention is here paid to themes such as presence, intention, repetition, power, and the opposition between speech and writing, themes that are continuous with Derrida’s works prior to 1971 but that, in the context of a rethinking of speech act theory, begin to take...

... with these modalities of “speech act” because they both bring us to the place where, I argue, Derrida begins and ends his reflections on speech act theory, namely, to an act in writing that is always accomplished beyond the subjectivity, power, and life of the person for whom it is issued, an act (of birth...

...© Fordham University Press 2015 2015 Fordham University Press This chapter explores the Jesuit concept of cura personalis, or care for the whole person, as it functions rhetorically in writing pedagogy at Loyola Marymount University. It begins by identifying a shared goal between...

..., translations, and reviews. What does it mean to be an Arab public intellectual writing on an international level, not least when these roles may be bestowed, much to the resistance of the intellectuals themselves, with the responsibility of educating the public? In this thrilling conversation, the two writers...

...This introduction lays out the book’s key arguments and its organizational structure. After exploring how life writing helps shape our understandings of who and what count as human, it looks to how life narratives that participate in liberatory political movements can counter hegemonic forms...

... medium of religious life. His work suggests that writing and dancing are interdependent modes of knowledge, equally implicated in the study of religion. Through these expositions, the value of van der Leeuw's method for the contemporary study of religion appears. Dance Disconcerting miracle Religion...

.... In close readings of Descartes, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Kierkegaard, the book traces this attitude to formative moments of the field in which philosophers relied upon the practice of writing to mediate between the study of “religion”, on the one hand, and “theology”, on the other. In the second...

... as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Here, the book pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Giorgio Agamben—very much in that order—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point...

... to the work is articulated in terms of a mutual isolation. The autonomy of the literary work responds to the isolation of the writer, and vice versa, which reveals a far-reaching revision of the notion of transcendence. For the work of writing, as that which brings the autonomy of the work and of the writer...

...This chapter focuses on the function of mobile phones as writing machines that, together with e-mails, do not only convey phonetic writing but also ideograms. It first outlines a phenomenology of the mobile phone to emphasize the allegiance, rather than the opposition, between the phone...

...This epilogue offers a philosophical take on mobile phones and letter writing by presenting a correspondence between Franz Kafka and a woman named Milena, in which he says that “writing letters means to denude oneself before the ghosts.” It then mentions inscription and signature in relation...

...Oral literature perturbs the institutions of literary study. A too emphatic distinction between oral and written cultures is an artefact of cultural and technological difference and must be situated within the history of writing and other media. Before we can understand what “oral literature...