CindersJacques Derrida's Cinders is among the most remarkable and revealing of this distinguished author's many writings. White Derrida customarily devotes his powers of analysis to exacting readings of texts from Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Heidegger, readers of Cinders will soon discover that here Derrida is engaged in a poetic self-analysis. Ranging across his numerous writings over the past twenty years, Derrida discerns a recurrent cluster of arguments and images, all involving in one way or another ashes and cinders. First published in 1982, revised in 1987, and printed here in a bilingual edition, Cinders enables readers to follow the development of Derrida's thinking from 1968 to the present as it defines itself as a persistent questioning of origins that invariably leads to the thought of ash and cinder. Written in a highly condensed poetic style, Cinders reveals some of Derrida's most probing etymological and philosophical reflections on the relation of language to the human. It also contains some of his most essential elaborations of his thinking on the feminine and on the legacy of the Holocaust in contemporary poetry and philosophy. Uniquely accessible to readers who have only recently begun to read Derrida and essential for all those familiar with Derrida's work, Cinders is an evocative and thoughtful contribution to our understanding of deconstruction. |
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A. V. Miller accent all-burning anniversary ashes autre voix avant brûle brûle-tout burning c'est Carole Bouquet cendre n'est chance chose Cinders name citations clinging consumed d'autres d'une Dasein Derrida calls désir deuil deux Dichten dire Dissemination elle envoi Ereignis essence être Feu la cendre fire fois fragile Freud G.W.F. Hegel garde gibt gift Glas Hegel Heidegger's holocaust il y a là impossible incineration Jacques Derrida jamais Jewish languages Klang l'être l'holocauste language letter lui-même Martin Heidegger ment metaphor mort mots mourning Nietzsche Nietzsche's nonpresent ontology Opfer ousias Paul Celan peut peut-être Phenomenology of Spirit phrase Plato's polylogue possible Postcard première proper name qu'elle qu'il qu'un rappel reading remains rien ring s'il sacrifice Schibboleth secret sentence seule seulement silent space Spirit tion tomb tout trace trans Translation modified truth voice word writes y a là cendre y a lieu