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OverviewIn this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida’s ‘Toledo confession’ – where he portrayed himself as ‘sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture’ – 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 – last but not least – 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 Valéry, and throws a new light on his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology, Dissemination and 'Différance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of many of Derrida’s works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano issue, like Glas, Given 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’. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA ISBN: 9781501392610ISBN 10: 1501392611 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 12 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 'Living Together' BibliographyReviewsNo one has ever tracked the figure of the Marrano through Derrida's entire corpus-and particularly the figure of Derrida himself as Marrano-with the degree of erudition, sophistication, insightfulness, and fidelity that Agata Bielik-Robson has in this new work. It will be impossible to read Derrida on questions of religion, the secret, testimony, confession, exile, and identity, to name just a few, without taking this magnificent, magisterial book along as one's guide. * Michael Naas, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University, USA * Author InformationAgata Bielik-Robson is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications include The Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction (2011), Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence (coedited with Adam Lipszyc, 2014), Philosophical Marranos: Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity (2014) and Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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