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Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting

Paperback • 2009 • English

Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting

By Sean Gaston , Hugh J Silverman

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Derrida, Literature and War argues for the importance of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work in thinking today about war and literature. Sean Gaston starts by marking Derrida's attempts to resist the philosophical tradition of calculating on absence as an assured resource, while insisting on the (mis)chances of the chance encounter. Gaston re-examines the relation between the concept of war and the chances of literature by focusing on narratives of conflict set during the N...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
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9781847065537

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2009

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English

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Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting

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Paperback

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