[D66] Desire in Ashes

[J.N.]

  Desire in Ashes


    Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

/*Editor(s):* Simon Morgan Wortham,
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/simon-morgan-wortham> Chiara Alfano
<http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/chiara-alfano>/

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Published: 	17-12-2015
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Edition: 	1st
Extent: 	192
ISBN: 	9781472529138
Imprint: 	Bloomsbury Academic
Series: 	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
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    About Desire in Ashes

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.


    Table Of Contents

Introduction, Chiara Alfano and Simon Morgan Wortham 'Ashes to Ashes:
Derrida's Holocaust', Gil Anidjar 'There Shall be No Mourning', Simon
Morgan Wortham 'Transference Love in the Age of "Isms''', Herman
Rapaport 'Sex Lives of the Philosophers', Martin McQuillan 'Tinder, or,
Suicide by Fire', Elissa Marder 'Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with
Derrida and Ferenczi', Lynn Turner 'Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of
Jacques Derrida's "Freud and the Scene of Writing'", Celine Surprenant
'The Desire for Survival?', Kas Saghafi The King is Dead. Long Live the
King', Chiara Alfano Index


    Reviews

“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 marvelous 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 publica tion
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

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