{"product_id":"on-the-name-jacques-derrida-paperback","title":"On the Name: Jacques Derrida - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus said of the Good. What happens, above all, when it is necessary to sur-name, renaming there where, precisely, the name comes to be found lacking? What makes the proper name into a sort of sur-name, pseudonym, or cryptonym at once singular and singularly untranslatable?\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacques Derrida thus poses a central problem in contemporary language, ethics, and politics, which he addresses in a liked series of the three essays. \u003ci\u003ePassions: \"An Oblique Offering\"\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSauf le nom (Post Scriptum)\u003c\/i\u003e considers the problematics of naming and alterity, or transcendence, raised inevitably by a rigorous negative theology. Much of the text is organized around close readings of the poetry of Angelus Silesius.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe final essay, \u003ci\u003eKhora, \u003c\/i\u003e explores the problem of space or spacing, of the word \u003ci\u003ekhora\u003c\/i\u003e in Plato's \u003ci\u003eTmaeus\u003c\/i\u003e. Even as it places and makes possible nothing less than the whole world, \u003ci\u003ekhora\u003c\/i\u003e opens and dislocates, displaces, all the categories that govern the production of that world, from naming to gender. In addition to readers in philosophy and literature, \u003ci\u003eKhora\u003c\/i\u003e will be of special interest to those in the burgeoning field of \"space studies\"(architecture, urbanism, design).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to giving that which one does not have, as Plotinus said of the Good. What happens, above all, when it is necessary to sur-name, renaming there where, precisely, the name comes to be found lacking? What makes the proper name into a sort of sur-name, pseudonym, or cryptonym at once singular and singularly untranslatable?\u003cbr\u003eJacques Derrida thus poses a central problem in contemporary language, ethics, and politics, which he addresses in a liked series of the three essays. Passions: \"An Oblique Offering\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsiders the problematics of naming and alterity, or transcendence, raised inevitably by a rigorous negative theology. Much of the text is organized around close readings of the poetry of Angelus Silesius.\u003cbr\u003eThe final essay, Khora, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexplores the problem of space or spacing, of the word khora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Plato's Tmaeus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. Even as it places and makes possible nothing less than the whole world, khora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopens and dislocates, displaces, all the categories that govern the production of that world, from naming to gender. In addition to readers in philosophy and literature, Khora\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be of special interest to those in the burgeoning field of \"space studies\"(architecture, urbanism, design).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major new book by Derrida that represents his most recent thinking, and includes landmark readings of Plato and the German poet-mystic Angelus Silesius. The essays are wonderfully rich and provocative, and, in spite of their apparent diversity of topic, are bound together as three ways of approaching the problematic of naming and speaking of something that exceeds 'isness.'  --J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715260477747,"sku":"9780804725552","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UWdSVmNHdkJESFoyeXY5M2M2M3EyQT09.webp?v=1763596845","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/on-the-name-jacques-derrida-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}