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Derrida's Marrano Passover - Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity (Hardcover)
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Derrida's Marrano Passover - Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures
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In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo
confession' - where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of
the French Catholic culture' - Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's
marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks
at all possible aspects of Derrida's Marrano identification in
order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of
non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as
Marranos cannot be characterized as either Jewish or Christian, so
is Derrida's 'universal Marranism' an invitation to think
philosophically, politically and - last but not least -
metaphysically without rigid categories of identity and belonging.
By concentrating on Derrida's deliberate choice of marranismo,
Bielik-Robson shows that it penetrates deep into the very core of
his late thinking, constantly drawing on the literary works of
Kafka, Celan, Joyce, Cixous and Valery, and throws a new light on
his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology, Dissemination and
'Differance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of
many of Derrida's works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano
issue, like Glas, Given Time: Counterfeit Money, Death Penalty
Seminar, and Specters of Marx. In these new readings, this book
demonstrates that the Marrano Derrida is not a marginal
auto-biographical figure overshadowed by Derrida the Philosopher:
it is one and the same thinker who discovered marranismo as a
literary trope of openness, offering up a new genre of
philosophical story-telling which centers around Derrida's Marrano
'auto-fable'.
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