Archive for July, 2008
As I mentioned below, Catherine Malabou was at the recent Derrida Today conference, (Sydney, July 2008). A version of the keynote that she gave there is published in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12:4 pp.431-441, 2007, (in English).
In the course of a reading of the first section of Of Grammatology, Malabou addresses the question [...]
Another conference this week, on literature and history, hosted by the Australasian Association for Literature. Ah, perhaps it was foolish to present two different papers this winter? In either case, it will be interesting to see what the lit crits are up to.
I’ll be presenting on Derrida and Hayden White, on both of them getting [...]
It’s now been a couple of days since the Derrida conference, and perhaps I can start to make some sense of my over-full head. There was an immense amount of material packed into the conference… it seems that it was so much longer than a mere three days.
Following are some general notes, and I will [...]
Today was the first day of the Derrida Today conference. I won’t write much, but wanted to catalogue here the excellent address by Andrew Benjamin on Derrida, Heidegger, their readings of Sophocles, and the possibility of ever being without, outside, above, beyond the law. He wasn’t mentioned, but this would resonate very well with some [...]
The Hegel Society of America has a notice on its website, advertising the sale of a first edition of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. A spare $15,000 US, anyone? It just passed its 200th birthday last year. That’s $75 for every year. Which really, makes sense, if you pay something like $75 for a new hardback [...]
In Derrida’s reading of Marx, Specters of Marx, in its first chapter, Derrida inserts, within parentheses, a reading of Blanchot’s Marx’s Three Voices, within which he inserts a reading of Heidegger’s The Anaximander Fragment.
These critical measures provide Derrida with the resources for his later analysis of Marx’s texts. Now, given Derrida’s invocation of The [...]
