Derrida's Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath (Incitements) (Paperback - 2017)
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A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experience
The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?'
Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death.
Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other) insofar as we conceal as well.
Key Features
- Provides a new philosophical reflection on the question of the secret, and its importance to contemporary political experience
- Develops a unique reading of the later work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, and of his largely overlooked discussions of the secret in his later writings and seminars
- Initiates a new method of approaching Derrida's work - one that rejects obscurity and reveals the lucidity of his thought
- Compares Derrida's work with that of the German sociologist Georg Simmel, and thus argues for the significance of Derrida's work for sociology
- Connects Derrida's work to a series of philosophical debates in the Analytic tradition, such as the problems of consciousness, self-deception, and other minds
- Compares Derrida's work on the secret with a series of other important political thinkers, including Deleuze, Schmitt, Arendt, Bataille and Agamben.
Keywords: Secrecy, Law, Oath, Testimony, Jacques Derrida, Georg Simmel
Subject: philosophy
ISBN13 | 9781474425001 |
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Product Name | Derrida's Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath (Incitements) (Paperback - 2017) |
Price | ₹2,401.00 |
Original Price | GBP 22.99 |
Author | Charles Barbour |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Publication Year | 2017 |
Subject | Sociology and Anthropology |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Pages | 304 |
Weight | 0.318000 |
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