Derrida's secret : perjury, testimony, oath /
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?' Organized as a ref...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Incitements.
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| Summary: | 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?' Organized as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic, such as 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 292 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474424996 9781474424998 1474425003 9781474425001 |