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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 »
I waited a long time for this section of my course on Levinas and Derrida: engagement with Celan’s conception of the poetic word. For me, it is just a compelling question on the face of it – how the poetic word functions in relation to singularity; and so how the poetic word articulates transcendence; and so how the poetic words becomes (or already is) ethical. Fascinating, no? What is brought into being in poetry (the poiesis of the poetic) is the ethical creature. The poetic word will have obligated me.
But there is also a fascinating collection of relations within (not yet between) these three thinkers. Read the rest of this entry »
