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In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and ""Salut"" centres on the relationship between poet Michel Deguy and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Translations of two essays, ""Of Contemporaneity"" by Deguy and ""How to Name"" by Derrida, allow Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert to develop the implications of this singular intellectual friendship. In these thinkers’ efforts to reinvent secular forms of the sacred, such as the singularity of the name, and especially poetic naming, Deguy, by adopting a Derridean programme of the impossible, and Derrida, by developing Deguy's ethics of naming through the word ""salut,"" situate themselves at the forefront of contemporary debates over politics and religion alongside figures like Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo and Martin Hagglund.

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This lengthy, sophisticated, and complex book by Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert includes previously untranslated essays by Jacques Derrida (`How to Name') and Michel Deguy (`Of Contemporaneity'); it is a celebration of the long friendship between these two thinker-poets, and their dialogue on a number of topics including (their) friendship. [...] this is a substantial contribution, and will be helpful for those working in the field to consult. br/>Judith Still, University of Nottingham, French Studies, 73-2, April 2019.

""This lengthy, sophisticated, and complex book by Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert includes previously untranslated essays by Jacques Derrida (‘How to Name’) and Michel Deguy (‘Of Contemporaneity’); it is a celebration of the long friendship between these two thinker-poets, and their dialogue on a number of topics including (their) friendship. [...] this is a substantial contribution, and will be helpful for those working in the field to consult."" br/>Judith Still, University of Nottingham, French Studies, 73-2, April 2019.

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Christopher Elson (Ph.D. 1995, University of Paris-IV) is Associate Professor of French at Dalhousie University. Author, translator and editor of articles and volumes on contemporary French culture including translator and editor of Michel Deguy’s A Man of Little Faith (2014). Garry Sherbert (Ph.D. 1992, University of Alberta), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Regina. He has published articles on Derrida, and books on Menippean satire, Canadian culture, including Northrop Frye’s Writings on Shakespeare and the Renaissance (2010).

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