Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism

Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. Since 1992, he has been professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Professor Rabaté has authored or edited more forty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound and Joyce. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literature (2014), The Pathos of Distance (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Rust (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is one of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Introduction: Derrida’s modernity and our modernism
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Part 1. Rethinking the main concepts of modernism
1. Trickster Economy: Derrida’s Baudelaire, and the Role of Money, Counterfeits, and Alms in the Modern City
Marit Grøtta, University of Oslo, Norway
2. Kant’s Celestial Economy; a Footnote to The Gift of Death
Eddis N. Miller, Pace University, USA
3. Derrida and Kafka: A Talmudic Disputation Before the Law
Vivian Liska, Antwerp University, Belgium
4. Derrida with Heidegger: Poetic Language, Animality, World
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Fordham University, USA
5. To Wound the Language: Derrida Reads Celan
Miriam Jerade, University of Mexico, Mexico
Part 2. Engaging with the poetics of canonical modernism
6. Derrida’s Joyce
Sam Slote, Trinity College, Dublin
7. Derrida re-voicing Artaud
Alhelí Alvarado, Columbia University, USA
8. Derrida on Bataille: from dueling to duet
Claire Lozier, University of Leeds, UK
9. A Cross in the margin, Inscription and Erasure in Derrida and Pound
Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia
10. Derrida after Valéry (after Derrida)
Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Part 3. Différance as performance: pushing modernism beyond its borders
11. Three ways of looking at Derrida’s encounter with Austin
Raoul Moati, University of Chicago, USA
12. Writing in the Shadow of Sartre’s Genet, Derrida’s Glas and the Ethics of Biography
Robert Doran, Rochester University, USA
13. Derrida, Cixous, and (Feminine) Writing
Marta Segarra, University of Barcelona, Spain
14. Reading between the lines: Derrida, Blanchot, Beckett
Leslie Hill, University of Warwick, UK
Part 4. Glossary
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Aporia
Auto-immunity
Biography/Autobiography/Autothanatography
Deconstruction
Différance
Hauntology
Hospitality
Iterability
Lies
Methods
Performative
Poetry
Undecidability
Writing / Texting

Index