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One of Derrida's most complex, intriguing and challenging texts,
Glas is a work of resounding importance for literature, for
philosophy, for literature, and for the relationship between the
two. This collection of essays, featuring leading scholars in the
field, seeks to trace its resonance four decades after its
publication. A number of interconnected problems and themes will be
examined, including Derrida's deconstruction of the Hegelian
interpretation of Antigone, the philosophy and politics of familial
and civil life, questions of sexual difference and dissidence, the
question of the signature, the complex role played by figuration
and language, and the continuing relevance of Glas today. While
some of the essays undertake rigorous close readings of the text,
at the same time as tracing the limits of such reading as they are
indeed anticipated by Glas itself, others take this work as the
occasion to explore its reverberations in other writings and in a
host of topics and problems germane not only to literary and
philosophical studies, but to cultural and political worlds far
beyond the confines of academia.
This is an exploration of Francophone communities from the 19th
century to the present. It is a special Issue of Paragraph edited
in 2001 by Celia Britton and Michael Syrotinski on Francophone
Texts and Postcolonial Theory played a determining role in shaping
the research field it helped to map. Ten years later, this
collection of ten articles provides an opportunity to explore
Francophone communities from a range of perspectives which
similarly engage with today's most pressing questions in
Francophone-Caribbean studies and postcolonial studies more
generally. The contributions draw on material from different
historical moments, ranging from the 19th century to the
contemporary period, and explore questions of literature, culture,
society and thought from across the Francophone Caribbean and
beyond. They will bring together original work by some of the
leading scholars in those fields, including Charles Forsdick, Kate
Hodgson, Martin Munro, Lorna Milne, Eli Park Sorenson, Mary
Gallagher, Maeve McCusker and Michael Syrotinski.
This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense
importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida.
Psychoanalysis is of immense importance in different ways to Helene
Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Bringing together original essays by
leading contemporary thinkers in literary theory and continental
philosophy, including a contribution by Cixous herself, this volume
explores the place of psychoanalysis in their work. It has a double
focus: both on the complex 'treatment' to which psychoanalysis is
subjected by Jacques Derrida and Helene Cixous, and on the role of
psychoanalytical concepts and insights in the extraordinary
intellectual dialogue that united these two groundbreaking authors
over several decades. Psychoanalysis remains an enigmatic discourse
for the humanities: on the one hand inextricable from and in many
ways constitutive of much of modern thinking, yet on the other hand
violently contested, from within and without. The essays in this
volume consider this situation through two thinkers whose work
challenges and radicalises psychoanalytic thinking in unprecedented
ways.
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