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Derrida´s Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath
Charles Barbour
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Paperback. The Snowden Affair, Wikiieaks, the lone wolf terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the question of the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: what is a secret? Series: Incitements. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black and white illustration. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JHBA; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 135. .
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?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: 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 ... Read more
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?' Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Incitements
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474425001
SKU
V9781474425001
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About Charles Barbour
Charles Barbour is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney.
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