The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning

On Responsibility in Eulogy

Timothy Secret (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7514-2 (ISBN)

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Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century’s three key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing that none of these three figures’ discourses offers us a complete account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries.

This is one of the first monographs to pay particular attention to the key role any contemporary account of the ethics of eulogy must grant to the revolutionary theoretical work on the materiality of crypts and phantoms offered by the psychoanalysts Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Their work is shown to supplement major limitations in traditional philosophical accounts of the ethical relation.

The account of eulogy as a privileged space where different discourses act on each other under the pressure of responding responsibly to an always singular loss proves itself essential reading not only for those interested in understanding Derrida’s overtly political works, but also offers an account of a performative training in negotiating aporias that arise in political society – the result of which is a pedagogy in the art of civility whose relevance today is more timely than ever.

Timothy Secret is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Winchester, UK and was an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker 2012.

Preface: The Proffered Refuge of the Dead (or ‘Why Psychoanalysis’)
1. Becoming Mortal
1.1. Learning to Die
1.2 The Anticipation of Death (on Heidegger)
2. Articulation
2.1 The Work of Deconstruction
2.2 Hinges and Articulations
3. The Ethics of Vulnerability
3.1 A Wounding of Language
3.2 Death in the Order of Exposition
4. The Scene of Writing
4.1 The Psychographic Metaphor
4.2 Psychic Sketches
5. Mourning or Melancholia
5.1 Psychoanalysis and Mourning
5.2 The Ghosts of Budapest
6. The Address of Eulogy
6.1 The Most Common of Experiences
6.2 The Simplest Thing
6.3 Memoires
6.4 The World is Gone
Conclusion: Closing the Tomb
Appendix: The Exceptional Solitude of Abraham and Torok
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2015
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	1-4725-7514-8 / 1472575148
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7514-2 / 9781472575142
Zustand	Neuware