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The World after the End of the World: A Spectro-Poetics

By (author) Kas Saghafi

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Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida. In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of ""the end the world"" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, the term salut, which in French means at once greeting and salvation. An underlying concern of The World after the End of the World is whether a discourse on salut (saving, being saved, and salvation) can be dissociated from discourse on religion. Saghafi compares Derrida's thought along these lines with similar concerns of Jean-Luc Nancy's. Combining analysis of these themes with reflections on personal loss, this book maintains that, for Derrida, salutation, greeting, and welcoming is resistant to the economy of salvation. This resistance calls for what Derrida refers to as a ""spectro-poetics"" devoted to and assigned to the other's singularity.

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Publisher | State University of New York Press
Published date | 2 Jan 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 210
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 290g
ISBN | 978-1-4384-7820-3
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BISAC | philosophy / history & surveys / modern

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