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History is a science of ghosts—just ask Michelet. Or Hegel, for that matter. But the problem with adopting the vocabulary of Derrida’s Specters of Marx (for example, like Ethan Kleinberg does) is that one feels like Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, seeing ghosts all the time. Not untrue, but unsatisfying. It took very [...]
Speaking on the link between the work of Derrida and identity, Peggy Kamuf, a trusted translator of Derrida’s work, glossed his work thus:
In practically everything Derrida has written over the last thirty years, this figure of circular appropriation of the self to itself without difference [she means the concept of identity] is shown to submit [...]
Here’s something I’m currently grappling with. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
On the one hand, I am dealing with the empirical history of the reception of Derrida. This is interesting insofar as it provides a kind of anthropology of academic disciplines – the way academics respond (or not) to philosophical innovation, and the way this is [...]
Phew! That’s one beefy chapter. I finished a draft of a chapter last week – it’s the first I’d done, and although I’m pretty sure it fill morph at some future point, the bones are there. Crazily though, it weighed in at about 33,000 words. Hmmmmm.
Perhaps a touch on the weighty side for a journal [...]
