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Unfortunately, we’re done discussing Celan’s poetics. Wednesday is the last day of class and I wanted to finish the course with Derrida’s essay on forgiveness. I really like the forgiveness essay. The best of Derrida’s discerning eye is on display and it has enormous consequences for how we think about life after violence. But that is another reflection altogether.
As we concluded discussing Celan, there was the curious – yet completely obvious – question of how to locate the scope of Derrida’s claims about the date, the password (shibboleth), and singularity. Read the rest of this entry »
