A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
Jacques Derrida's famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting.
Presented here in an entirely new translation as Clang-its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell-this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel's totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet's autobiographical, carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other: philosophical and literary, familial and perverse, logical and sensory.
In both content and structure, Clang heightens the significance of all encounters across ruptures of thought or experience and vibrates with the impact of discordant languages colliding.
| ISBN: | 9780816691500 |
| Publication date: | 23rd February 2021 |
| Author: | Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | Posthumanities |
| Genres: |
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Western philosophy from c 1800 |
A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
Jacques Derrida's famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting.
Presented here in an entirely new translation as Clang-its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell-this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel's totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet's autobiographical, carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other: philosophical and literary, familial and perverse, logical and sensory.
In both content and structure, Clang heightens the significance of all encounters across ruptures of thought or experience and vibrates with the impact of discordant languages colliding.
Clang features in the following genres: Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy from c 1800
Clang is available in Hardback
Clang was written by Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida and published by University of Minnesota Press an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press
Clang has 312 pages
Yes it is part of Posthumanities series