Format:
x, 292 Seiten
,
19 cm
ISBN:
9781474425001
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9781474424998
Series Statement:
Incitements
Content:
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
Content:
Introduction : Cavernosis anfractibus -- Under oath : secrecy, perjury and the social bond -- Open secrets : literature, politics and testimonial truth -- Between two solitudes : self-deception, consciousness and the other mind -- Being alone : death, solitude and the end of the world -- Conclusion : secretions
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474425018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474425025
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Barbour, Charles Derrida's secret Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017 ISBN 9781474425025
Language:
English
Keywords:
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
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Geheimnis
;
Philosophie
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Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
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Geheimnis
;
Philosophie
Author information:
Barbour, Charles A. 1969-
