Derrida's Marrano Passover
Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity
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Derrida's Marrano Passover
Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity
About This Book
In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida's 'Toledo confession' â where he portrayed himself as 'sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture' â Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida's marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks at all possible aspects of Derrida's Marrano identification in order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as Marranos cannot be characterized as either Jewish or Christian, so is Derrida's 'universal Marranism' an invitation to think philosophically, politically and â last but not least â metaphysically without rigid categories of identity and belonging. By concentrating on Derrida's deliberate choice of marranismo, Bielik-Robson shows that it penetrates deep into the very core of his late thinking, constantly drawing on the literary works of Kafka, Celan, Joyce, Cixous and ValĂ©ry, and throws a new light on his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology, Dissemination and 'DiffĂ©rance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of many of Derrida's works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano issue, like Glas, G iven Time: Counterfeit Money, Death Penalty Seminar, and Specters of Marx. In these new readings, this book demonstrates that the Marrano Derrida is not a marginal auto-biographical figure overshadowed by Derrida the Philosopher: it is one and the same thinker who discovered marranismo as a literary trope of openness, offering up a new genre of philosophical story-telling which centers around Derrida's Marrano 'auto-fable'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: The Marrano uncanny: The last and the first of Jews
- 1 Betray, betray again, betray better: Marrano theology of survival
- 2 Secret followers of the hiding god: Marrano a-theism
- 3 The nameless still life: Marrano metaphysics of non-presence
- 4 Two serious Marranos: Derrida and Cixous (with constant reference to Poldy Bloom)
- 5 Ana-community: Marrano âliving togetherâ
- Bibliography
- Index of names and terms
- Copyright