Apparitions — Of Derrida’s Other

224 Pages·2010·6.88 MB·English

by  Kas Saghafi

Apparitions-Of Derrida's Other
Series Board
James Bernauer
Drucilla Cornell
Thomas R. Flynn
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Jean-Luc Marion
Adriaan Peperzak
Thomas Sheehan
Hent de Vries
Merold Westphal
Michael Zimmerman
John D. Caputo, series editor
PERSPECTIVES IN
CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY
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KAS SAGHAFI
Apparitions-Of Derrida's Other
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York • 2010
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saghafi, Kas.
Apparitions-of Derrida's other I Kas Saghafi. - 1st ed.
p. cm. - (Perspectives in continental philosophy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8232-3162-1 (cloth: alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-8232-3163-8 (pbk.:
alk. paper)
I. Derrida, Jacques. 2. Other (Philosophy) I. Title.
B2430.0484S24 2010
194-dc22 2009054042
Printed in the United States of America
121110 54321
First edition
For Pleshette
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
List ofA bbreviations xiii
-duction 1
PART I: ANALOGIES
1 ''An Almost Unheard-ofA nalogy": Derrida Reading Levinas 7
2 This Monstrous Figure without Figure or Face 29
3 "'<;a, me regarde": Regarding Responsibility in Derrida 50
PART II: APPARITIONS
4 The Ghost o/Jacques Derrida 65
5 Phantasmaphotography 83
PART III: APPROACHES
6 By the Board: Derrida Approaching Blanchot 101
7 Salut-ations: Between Derrida and Nancy 129
Notes 147
Index 199
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