Derrida's secret : perjury, testimony, oath /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barbour, Charles, 1969- author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (x, 292 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Incitements Incitements.
Subject:	Derrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation. Derrida, Jacques. Secrecy -- Philosophy. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11759124

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	9781474425018 1474425011 9781474425025 147442502X 1474424996 9781474424998 1474425003 9781474425001
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's private email account - the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception, and time and death. Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other) insofar as we conceal as well.
Other form:	Print version: Barbour, Charles, 1969- Derrida's secret. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 1474424996

Similar Items