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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accent already ashes autre bear becomes beginning burning c'est calls chance chose cinder coming consumed d'autres d'une dans Dasein desire difference dire Dissemination distance double elle envoi essence Feu la cendre figure final fire fois gift gives Glas hear Heidegger Heidegger's holocaust impossible Jacques Derrida jamais la cendre language leaves letter lieu light logic longer mark materiality means memory ment mourning n'est Nietzsche once origin perhaps peut-être phrase play polylogue possible Postcard presence Press promise proper name pure qu'elle qu'il qu'un question reading relation remains reste rien ring secret sense sentence signal silent space speak Spirit step thing thinking thought tion tomb tout trace trans Translation modified truth University voice voix writing y a là cendre