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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the relation between the subject and the other in the work of Jacques Derrida as one of ‘surviving translating’. It demonstrates the key role of translation in thinking difference rather than identity, beginning with the work of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas. It describes how translation, and its ethical demands, acts as a leitmotif throughout Derrida’s writing; from his early work on Edmund Husserl to his last texts on politics and hospitality. While for both Heidegger and Levinas translation is always possible, Derrida’s account is marked by the challenge of impossibility. Expanding translation beyond a merely linguistic operation, Foran explores Derrida’s accounts of mourning, death and ‘survival’ to offer a new perspective on the ethics of subjectivity.Â
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Lisa Foran
About the author
Lisa Foran is Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at Newcastle University (UK). She is editor of Translation and Philosophy (2012) and co-editor of Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference (Springer, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Derrida, the Subject and the Other
Book Subtitle: Surviving, Translating, and the Impossible
Authors: Lisa Foran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57758-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57757-3Published: 12 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57758-0Published: 29 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 280
Topics: Postmodern Philosophy