Charles Barbour

Derrida's Secret

Perjury, Testimony, Oath

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Produktbeschreibung

The Snowden Affair, Wikiieaks, the lone wolf terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the question of the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: what is a secret?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 134mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781474425001
• ISBN-10: 1474425003
• Artikelnr.: 47524116

Autorenporträt

Charles Barbour is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Marx Machine: Politics, Polemics, Ideology (Lexington Books, 2012). He is co-editor of Action and Appearance: Ethics and the Politics of Writing in Hannah Arendt (Continuum, 2011) and After Sovereignty (Routledge, 2009). He has written numerous book chapters and journal articles on social and political theory, with a special emphasis on Karl Marx.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Cauernosis Anfractibus
1. Under Oath: Secrecy, Perjury, and the Social Bond
2. Open Secrets: Literature, Politics, and Testimonial Truth
3. Between Two Solitudes: Self-Deception, Consciousness, and the Other
Mind
4. Being Alone: Death, Solitude, and the End of the World
Conclusion: Secretions
Bibliography
Index