A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of
Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue
with each other Jacques Derrida’s famously challenging book Glas
puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and
reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column
discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet,
with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The
resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is
a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of
grafting. Presented here in an entirely new translation as
Clang—its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death
knell—this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel’s totalizing,
hierarchical system of thought with Genet’s autobiographical,
carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible
discourses into dialogue with each other: philosophical and
literary, familial and perverse, logical and sensory. In both
content and structure, Clang heightens the significance of all
encounters across ruptures of thought or experience and vibrates
with the impact of discordant languages colliding. Â
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