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An edition of three essays by the leading French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of 'naming'. Passions: An Oblique Offering is a reflection on the question of the response, on the duty and obligation to respond, and on the possibility of not responding - which is to say, on the ethics and politics of responsibility. Sauf le nom (Post Scriptum) considers the problematics of naming and alterity, or transcendence, raised inevitably by a rigorous negative theology. Much of the text is organised around close readings of the poetry of Angelus Silesius. The final essay, Khora, explores the problem of space or spacing, of the word 'khora' in Plato's Timaeus. Even as it places and makes possible nothing less than the whole world, 'khora' opens, dislocates and displaces all the categories that govern the production of that world, from naming to gender.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: On the Name
• Author: Jacques Derrida
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9780804725545
• ISBN: 0804725543
• ID: 04716382
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 408 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1995

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