Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy by Professor Simon W

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The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism.This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well.Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

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Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University, London, UK.Chiara Alfano is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kingston University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsIntroductionSimon Morgan Wortham and Chiara AlfanoChapter 1Ashes to Ashes: Derrida's HolocaustGil AnidjarChapter 2'There shall be no mourning'Simon Morgan WorthamChapter 3Transference Love in the Age of 'Isms'Herman RapaportChapter 4Kindling; or, Suicide by FireElissa MarderChapter 5Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and FerencziLynn TurnerChapter 6Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida's 'Freud and the Scene of Writing'Céline SurprenantChapter 7The Desire for Survival?Kas SaghafiChapter 8The King is Dead! Long Live the King!Chiara Alfano

Review

Desire—which can never go out of fashion, never cease to move, never settle finally on its proper object—and "deconstruction," a term, a movement, an intellectual style, a form of thought surely time-stamped, maybe even expired. This marvellous collection of essays shows us that deconstruction's long, unthought concern with desire—primarily in Derrida's work, but also in his closest readers', American as well as European—lets us think beyond its seeming end; and how desire's stubborn persistence, its endlessness, inasmuch as it is deconstruction in act and thought, infuses the work of religion, philosophy, ethics, and historiography. Desire in Ashes realigns thought: it is scholarship at its most consequential and urgent. * Jacques Lezra, Professor of Spanish, English, and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA *Readers interested in the futures of deconstruction and its intersections with contemporary thought will find the publication of Desire in Ashes a welcome event. This well-timed, thoughtful book makes the Derridean analysis of desire a source of deconstruction's continued liveliness and taps its energies in a wide-ranging collection of essays to make the point. * Ellen S. Burt, Professor of French and Italian, University of california, Irvine, USA *Desire in Ashes is a rich and fascinating volume. Bringing together an impressive range of scholars, Morgan Wortham and Alfano's book offers something not available elsewhere: an excellent, focused collection of insights and explorations concerning the ways in which psychoanalysis and deconstruction have transformed our understanding of the nature of desire. * Nicholas Royle, Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK *

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Re-evaluates the continuing importance of deconstruction and Derrida in contemporary European thought

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Readers interested in the futures of deconstruction and its intersections with contemporary thought will find the publication of Desire in Ashes a welcome event. This well-timed, thoughtful book makes the Derridean analysis of desire a source of deconstruction's continued liveliness and taps its energies in a wide-ranging collection of essays to make the point.

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Re-evaluates the continuing importance of deconstruction and Derrida in contemporary European thought

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Provides a new framework within which to think about the 'afterlife' of deconstruction

Details ISBN1350039640 Pages 192 ISBN-10 1350039640 ISBN-13 9781350039643 Format Paperback Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-06-29 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Simon Wortham DEWEY 149.97 Short Title Desire in Ashes Language English UK Release Date 2017-06-29 NZ Release Date 2017-06-29 Author Dr Chiara Alfano Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2017-06-28 We've got this

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