Overview

"In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of ""the end the world"" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, the term salut, which in French means at once greeting and salvation. An underlying concern of The World after the End of the World is whether a discourse on salut (saving, being saved, and salvation) can be dissociated from discourse on religion. Saghafi compares Derrida's thought along these lines with similar concerns of Jean-Luc Nancy's. Combining analysis of these themes with reflections on personal loss, this book maintains that, for Derrida, salutation, greeting, and welcoming is resistant to the economy of salvation. This resistance calls for what Derrida refers to as a ""spectro-poetics"" devoted to and assigned to the other's singularity."

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Author:   Kas Saghafi
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438478203

ISBN 10:   1438478208
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   02 January 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue: Salut—A Spectro-Poetics The End of the World 1. The World after the End of the World Intact 2. Safe, Intact: Derrida, Nancy, and the ""Deconstruction of Christianity"" The Unscathed Tact and Touch Do Not Wish to Touch Me Intact There's Deconstruction, and then, There's Deconstruction Death 3. Derrida Is the Death of Death Death The Proper Is Stronger than Life and Death Aporias Marranos Side Resurrection 4. Nancy's Resurrection Resurrection Eternal Life Nancy's Eternal Life Survivance 5. The Desire for Survival? Desire Finitude Immortality Dead—Immortal The Impossibility of Dying The Desire for Survival? 6. For a Time: The Time of Survival 7. Dying Alive: The Phantasmatics of Living-Death The Phantasm The Phantasm of Dying Alive Thinking Death The Intemporality of the Unconscious The Phantasm and the Event Survivance The Weave Ground Perhaps an Other Time, Place, and Logic: Affect, the Phantasm, and the ""As If "" Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

The prologue and opening and closing chapters are satisfyingly clarifying and surprisingly moving ... the end of the world of each person leaves traces, Derrida believed, and Saghafi's book serves Derrida's traces as well readers. - CHOICE Saghafi's book makes a remarkable contribution as a coming-to-terms with interminable mourning. - Peggy Kamuf, author of To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida

Author Information

Kas Saghafi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Apparitions―Of Derrida's Other.

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