عنوان

Cinders /

(Number (ISBN

1452942307

(Number (ISBN

9781452942308

Erroneous ISBN

0816689539

Erroneous ISBN

0816689547

Erroneous ISBN

9780816689538

Erroneous ISBN

9780816689545

Title Proper

Cinders /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jacques Derrida ; Translated by Ned Lukacher ; Introduction by Cary Wolfe.

Edition Statement

First University of Mennesota Press edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Minneapolis :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Minnesota Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxx, 66 pages)

Series Title

Posthumanities ;

Volume Designation

28

Text of Note

Translation of: Feu la cendre.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Introduction; Prologue; Animadversions; Cinders; Sources for Animadversions; Translator's Notes

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Text of Note

""More than fifteen years ago," Jacques Derrida writes in the prologue to this remarkable and uniquely revealing book, "a phrase came to me, as though in spite of me. It imposed itself upon me with the authority, so discreet and simple it was, of a judgment: cinders there are (il y a là cendre). I had to explain myself to it, respond to it--or for it." In Cinders Derrida ranges across his work from the previous twenty years and discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. For Derrida, cinders or ashes--at once fragile and resilient--are "the better paradigm for what I call the trace--something that erases itself totally, radically, while presenting itself." In a style that is both highly condensed and elliptical, Cinders offers probing reflections on the relation of language to truth, writing, the voice, and the complex connections between the living and the dead. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust (both a word--from the Greek holos, "whole," and kaustos, "burnt"--And a historical event that invokes ashes) in contemporary poetry and philosophy. In turning from the texts of other philosophers to his own, Cinders enables readers to follow the trajectory from Derrida's early work on the trace, the gramma, and the voice to his later writings on life, death, time, and the spectral. Among the most accessible of this renowned philosopher's many writings, Cinders is an evocative and haunting work of poetic self-analysis that deepens our understanding of Derrida's critical and philosophical vision."--

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JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

22573/ctt199dzf1

Stock Number

77559808-D522-452B-B428-5F8C71E51AC7

Title

Cinders.

International Standard Book Number

9780816689538

General Material Designation

Feu la cendre.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Ambiguity.

Homonyms.

Plays on words.

Ambiguity.

HISTORY-- Holocaust.

Homonyms.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Semiotics & Theory.

PHILOSOPHY-- General.

Plays on words.

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Derrida, Jacques

Lukacher, Ned,1950-

Date of Transaction

20200822135454.0

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