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Living On / To Survive - Epidemic Writings (Paperback)
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Those familiar with the work of Derrida will recognize the double
term in the title as variations, in translation, of Derrida's
untimely essay Survivre. To survive in this infinite mood and
indefinite form that sets no limit to number, person, or time is at
once the theme and the undercurrent that runs through the diverse
texts gathered together in this volume. To survive, for such is our
exceptional situation, also animates the act of writing: to shelter
a personal existence and actualize the promise writing holds for
saving something more than (bare) life. Derrida termed it sur-vie
or living on. The texts date from different times and phases of the
mutating epidemic. In chronological order, they register the
progressive evolution and complication of the sense of this novel
crisis. The first is contemporaneous with the immediate virus
outbreak and with Agambens provocative dismissal of the health
crisis. The Two Transcripts are of video interventions that
appeared on Jerome Lebre's Youtube channel Philosopher en temps
depidemie one of several platforms to call for critical discourse;
a third intervention, completing the triptych, was recorded in
French but never published. Here an extended, more developed
version closes the volume. Engaging Derridas Survie, it also
responds to the recent death of Jean-Luc Nancy. At the center,
anchoring the volume, is a complex text that can be read as a
belated postscript to the first volume On Contemporaneity after
Agamben, and / or as a premature preface to its forthcoming
successor (The Time That Remains). It asks about the newly acquired
sense of the World in Paul Celans often cited last phrase: The
world is gone. Living On / To Survive is essential reading for
students and scholars in literature, philosophy and psychology.
Publication details of these and related titles are provided in the
prelims to the book. Related titles The Concept and its Times
(978-1-84519-991-3), was published January 2020. Art in the time
that remains (978-1-84519-992-0), the second of the two-volume
publication, is due November 2022.
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