The publication of Derrida's fragment Le Calcul des langues — Distyle offers an insight into Derrida's negotiation with empiricism and his rethinking of rhetoric in the early 1970s. Delineating Condillac's pervasive idealization of empiricism, Derrida gestures to a pain-becoming-pleasure and pleasure-becoming-pain that resists the fixed identity of the proper body. His emphasis on the pains and wounds of rhetoric registers both the limits of Condillac's philosophical project (rhetoric re-marks the excess of metaphor and the sensuous origins of language) and the possibility of another kind of empiricism, of the gaps that border on the word and the body. The article includes a reading of rhetoric and sex in Rousseau, as a gesture to Derrida's still unpublished seminar on rhetoric. It closes with an examination of the two-columned nature of Derrida's work, which ends mid-word (on the left) and mid-sentence (on the right).
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Opening with a consideration of the distribution of the two graphic acts — drawing and writing — this article offers a comparative study of Jacques Derrida's and Jean-Luc Nancy's respective exhibitions and catalogue essays on the subject of drawing. Through a comparative examination of what I take to be their central theoretical contributions to the study of drawing — Derrida its ‘rhetoric’, Nancy its ‘rhythm’ — this article moves on to suggest how these concepts inform a theory of poetic lineation.
{"title":"Rhetoric and Rhythm — Derrida, Nancy and the Poetics of Drawing","authors":"Thomas Gould","doi":"10.3366/PARA.2021.0363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/PARA.2021.0363","url":null,"abstract":"Opening with a consideration of the distribution of the two graphic acts — drawing and writing — this article offers a comparative study of Jacques Derrida's and Jean-Luc Nancy's respective exhibitions and catalogue essays on the subject of drawing. Through a comparative examination of what I take to be their central theoretical contributions to the study of drawing — Derrida its ‘rhetoric’, Nancy its ‘rhythm’ — this article moves on to suggest how these concepts inform a theory of poetic lineation.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44679918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent years, commentators have begun to re-examine the proximity of Frantz Fanon's and Jacques Lacan's work — a proximity which has traditionally been underappreciated. This article adds to these voices, demonstrating the reciprocal intellectual relationship between these two figures. It develops five interrelated arguments to chart this proximity. First, it emphasizes Lacan's and Fanon's connections through their ontological perspectives on madness. Second, it arbitrates the two theorists’ criticisms of the limits of Western psychoanalysis. Third, it shows the importance placed by both on social structures in determining mental illnesses. Next, it demonstrates the centrality of their common understanding of psychosis. Finally, it argues that Lacan's argument in The Sinthome concerning the colonizer's power is inherited from Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks — itself influenced by Lacan's early theory of language. The article does not attempt to cast Fanon as an apprentice Lacanian but rather to argue that reciprocity helped shape both oeuvres.
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This article addresses the role of auditory-related verbs in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Pierre Schaeffer in order to shed light on a broader tendency in French thought. Through a comparative reading of the ways in which Nancy, in Listening, and Schaeffer, in Treatise on Musical Objects, mobilize verbs such as écouter and entendre, I connect the issue of language to debates about descriptive and prescriptive approaches towards listening. Drawing on the Dictionary of Untranslatables, I argue that Nancy's and Schaeffer's engagements with listening can be mapped onto historical modes of framing politics and ethics, which are also characterized by descriptive and prescriptive approaches. By showing how theories of listening connect to political and ethical debates, this study discusses the ideological instrumentalization of listening as opposed to more descriptive and exploratory forms of engagement in the auditory and the faculty of the ear.
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What is at play in play? What does it mean to take play seriously? Or, in the case of Sigmund Freud, what does it means to take jokes seriously? This article argues that Sarah Kofman's reading of Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, in her 1986 book Pourquoi rit-on? Freud et le mot d'esprit, provides us with one of the most serious and playful responses to these questions. It claims that a kind of Oedipal play leads Kofman to analyse Freud's book, to put it — and therefore him — on the couch.
{"title":"Freud's Jewish Jokes: The Case of Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious","authors":"Elizabeth Rottenberg","doi":"10.3366/PARA.2021.0357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/PARA.2021.0357","url":null,"abstract":"What is at play in play? What does it mean to take play seriously? Or, in the case of Sigmund Freud, what does it means to take jokes seriously? This article argues that Sarah Kofman's reading of Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, in her 1986 book Pourquoi rit-on? Freud et le mot d'esprit, provides us with one of the most serious and playful responses to these questions. It claims that a kind of Oedipal play leads Kofman to analyse Freud's book, to put it — and therefore him — on the couch.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"44 1","pages":"103-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48783507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article delves into the discreet yet persistent presence of music in Sarah Kofman's work. Three strands or movements of unequal length are explored here, each of which touches upon a specific volume of Kofman's: Nietzsche and Metaphor, L'Imposture de la beauté and, lastly, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat. More specifically, the article shows how her interpretations of Nietzsche's writings on music are almost paradigmatically neutral in their readerly fidelity to the originals, whereas Rue Ordener, Rue Labat suggests a more emotionally charged rapport with music. In closing, the article considers the possibility that these two, ostensibly divergent modes of reading and writing are very much in tune with each other in that they blur the line between interprétation as philosophical commentary and interprétation as musical performance.
{"title":"Sarah Kofman and the Allure of Music","authors":"Cosmin Toma","doi":"10.3366/PARA.2021.0355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/PARA.2021.0355","url":null,"abstract":"This article delves into the discreet yet persistent presence of music in Sarah Kofman's work. Three strands or movements of unequal length are explored here, each of which touches upon a specific volume of Kofman's: Nietzsche and Metaphor, L'Imposture de la beauté and, lastly, Rue Ordener, Rue Labat. More specifically, the article shows how her interpretations of Nietzsche's writings on music are almost paradigmatically neutral in their readerly fidelity to the originals, whereas Rue Ordener, Rue Labat suggests a more emotionally charged rapport with music. In closing, the article considers the possibility that these two, ostensibly divergent modes of reading and writing are very much in tune with each other in that they blur the line between interprétation as philosophical commentary and interprétation as musical performance.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"44 1","pages":"73-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44616619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since Sarah Kofman's death in 1994, many critics have investigated her friendship with Jacques Derrida, and have tried to make sense of its striking dissymmetry. Contrary to those merely deeming Kofman ‘an orthodox Derridean’ (Alice Jardine), thus ascribing to her the unrewarding role of the disciple, Penelope Deutscher and more recently Ginette Michaud, among others, have endeavoured to interpret Derrida's odd silences and omissions regarding Kofman's work in a more subtle manner. Drawing on these readings, this article questions the erasure of ‘Sarah Kofman’ from Derrida's oeuvre by comparing it to the paradoxical effacement of ‘woman’ in the philosopher's texts, arguing that ‘Sarah Kofman’ both as a proper name and as a corpus figures the ‘woman’ missing from Derrida's work. Drawing on the work of feminist critics like Jardine, Miller and Spivak, the article retraces the ambiguous function of ‘woman’ in Derrida's writing, before stressing parallels between ‘Sarah Kofman’ and the Derridean ‘woman’.
{"title":"Derrida's Missing Woman","authors":"Charlotte Thevenet","doi":"10.3366/PARA.2021.0354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/PARA.2021.0354","url":null,"abstract":"Since Sarah Kofman's death in 1994, many critics have investigated her friendship with Jacques Derrida, and have tried to make sense of its striking dissymmetry. Contrary to those merely deeming Kofman ‘an orthodox Derridean’ (Alice Jardine), thus ascribing to her the unrewarding role of the disciple, Penelope Deutscher and more recently Ginette Michaud, among others, have endeavoured to interpret Derrida's odd silences and omissions regarding Kofman's work in a more subtle manner. Drawing on these readings, this article questions the erasure of ‘Sarah Kofman’ from Derrida's oeuvre by comparing it to the paradoxical effacement of ‘woman’ in the philosopher's texts, arguing that ‘Sarah Kofman’ both as a proper name and as a corpus figures the ‘woman’ missing from Derrida's work. Drawing on the work of feminist critics like Jardine, Miller and Spivak, the article retraces the ambiguous function of ‘woman’ in Derrida's writing, before stressing parallels between ‘Sarah Kofman’ and the Derridean ‘woman’.","PeriodicalId":44142,"journal":{"name":"PARAGRAPH","volume":"44 1","pages":"58-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44610573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the relationship that Jacques Derrida and Sarah Kofman developed throughout their lifetimes, both as close friends and as philosophers who shared many common research interests. In his tribute to Sarah Kofman, published in Les Cahiers du Grif in 1997, Derrida stated that ‘These interests and exercises go far beyond the limits of a short narrative, indeed of a terminable analysis’, thus challenging the reader to delve into these ‘elliptical greetings’. The numerous interactions present in Kofman's and Derrida's respective bodies of work are not without conflicts nor dissymmetry, and their often oblique modes of acknowledgement are far from any ‘balance’ on either side. Revisiting some of the différends among two great thinkers of différance, this article highlights the Derridean logic of gift and debt at work between them. Focusing on the posthumous tribute Derrida pays to his friend (left untitled, which is itself a revealing gesture), one can sense that there is much at stake in that piece that touches on the major question of forgiveness and the affirmation of survie or living on, thus setting a scene of reading where Derrida's debt towards Kofman turns out to be more telling than one may have expected.
本文考察了雅克·德里达和莎拉·科夫曼在他们的一生中发展起来的关系，他们既是亲密的朋友，也是有着许多共同研究兴趣的哲学家。德里达在1997年发表于《格里夫日记》(Les Cahiers du Grif)上的对莎拉·科夫曼(Sarah kaufman)的致敬中说，“这些兴趣和练习远远超出了简短叙述的范围，实际上超出了可终止分析的范围”，从而挑战读者深入研究这些“隐晦的问候”。在科夫曼和德里达各自的作品中，无数的互动并非没有冲突，也不是不对称的，他们经常以倾斜的方式承认，这与任何一方的“平衡”相距甚远。本文回顾了两位伟大的异质交换思想家之间的一些异质交换，强调了他们之间的礼物和债务的德里德里逻辑。专注于德里达对他的朋友的死后致敬(没有标题，这本身就是一种揭示的姿态)，人们可以感觉到，在那篇文章中，有很多利害攸关的问题，涉及宽恕和对生存或生活的肯定，从而设置了一个阅读场景，德里达对科夫曼的债务比人们预期的更有意义。
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One of a handful of texts written by Sarah Kofman in the interim between the publication of her Explosion (1992, 1993), a 700-page analysis of Ecce Homo, and her sudden death in 1994, ‘And Yet It Q...
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This article considers Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Moliere's Dom Juan in ‘The art of not paying one's debts’. It argues that this neglected text addresses important questions of moral debt and...
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