Derrida's Marrano Passover

Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity

Agata Bielik-Robson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9265-8 (ISBN)

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In this first ever monograph on Jacques Derrida’s ‘Toledo confession’ – where he portrayed himself as ‘sort of a Marrano of the French Catholic culture’ – Agata Bielik-Robson shows Derrida’s marranismo to be a literary experiment of auto-fiction. She looks at all possible aspects of Derrida’s Marrano identification in order to demonstrate that it ultimately constitutes a trope of non-identitarian evasion that permeates all his works: just as Marranos cannot be characterized as either Jewish or Christian, so is Derrida’s ‘universal Marranism’ an invitation to think philosophically, politically and – last but not least – metaphysically without rigid categories of identity and belonging.

By concentrating on Derrida’s deliberate choice of marranismo, Bielik-Robson shows that it penetrates deep into the very core of his late thinking, constantly drawing on the literary works of Kafka, Celan, Joyce, Cixous and Valéry, and throws a new light on his early works, most of all: Of Grammatology, Dissemination and 'Différance'. She also offers a completely new interpretation of many of Derrida’s works only seemingly non-related to the Marrano issue, like Glas, Given Time: Counterfeit Money, Death Penalty Seminar, and Specters of Marx. In these new readings, this book demonstrates that the Marrano Derrida is not a marginal auto-biographical figure overshadowed by Derrida the Philosopher: it is one and the same thinker who discovered marranismo as a literary trope of openness, offering up a new genre of philosophical story-telling which centers around Derrida’s Marrano ‘auto-fable’.

Agata Bielik-Robson is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications include The Saving Lie: Harold Bloom and Deconstruction (2011), Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence (coedited with Adam Lipszyc, 2014), Philosophical Marranos: Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity (2014) and Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Marrano Uncanny – The Last and the First of Jews
1. Betray, Betray Again, Betray Better: Marrano Theology of Survival
2. Secret Followers of the Hiding God: Marrano A-Theism
3. The Nameless Still Life: Marrano Metaphysics of Non-Presence
4. Two Serious Marranos: Derrida and Cixous (with Constant Reference to Poldy Bloom)
5. Ana-Community: Marrano 'Living Together'
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Jewish Literatures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-9265-4 / 1501392654
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9265-8 / 9781501392658
Zustand	Neuware