Agamben Giorgio - The motif of the Messianic law, life, and writing in Agambens reading of Derrida

The Motif of the Messianic

The Motif of the Messianic

Law, Life, and Writing in Agambens Reading of Derrida

Arthur Willemse

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Names: Willemse, Arthur, author.

Title: The motif of the Messianic : law, life, and writing in Agambens reading of Derrida / Arthur Willemse.

Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048469 (print) | LCCN 2017050626 (ebook) | ISBN 9781498544122 (Electronic) | ISBN 9781498544115 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Derrida, Jacques. | Agamben, Giorgio, 1942

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Contents

Works by Giorgio Agamben

Works by Jacques Derrida

Other works

There are many people who contributed to the work done on this study, some of whom I would like to thank here. I was very lucky to receive the support of my liaisons at Lexington Books, Jana Hodges-Kluck and Rachel Weydert. Dawid Kulakowski was kind enough to translate the statement from Sklepy Cynamonowe I use as an epigraph. I am particularly grateful to Ashley Valmere Fischer, for permission to use her work Controlled Burn on the cover of this book. Furthermore, I am grateful to Stanford University Press and New York Review of Books Classics for permission to quote from their titles, as indicated in the endnotes.

Dr. Paul Davies at the University of Sussex has been my mentor since 2010 and I would like to thank him for his guidance. The conversations we shared have been an incredible source of inspiration to me. Another important teacher I would like to thank is Professor Gert-Jan van der Heiden at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Professor Tanja Staehler at the University of Sussex and Professor William Watkin at Brunel University have both made an invaluable contribution to this study, doing me the honour of carefully reading my work and discussing it with me, allowing me to improve it significantly. This is true also of the anonymous reviewer who read my manuscript. Dr. Daniel Steuer at the University of Brighton was generous with his time as we discussed a vital element of this study.

I am lucky and grateful to have a circle of a friends and colleagues with whom I discussed many aspects of my work, and who helped me in many other ways. Many thanks, especially to Bart van Oost, Frank Diepenmaat, Jacob Berkson, Chris Allsobrook, Noah Gabriel Martin, Simon Mussell, Beth Mills and Jenny Diggins, Alia Aghajanian and Eric Kasper, Florian Herzog and Lena Lengemann, Oli Sharpe, German Primera, Sander Lestrade, Niek Hermsen, Taco Hidde Bakker, and Naysan Adlparvar. Robin van der Sligtegreatly missed, warmly rememberedwas also among these friends. For their support and interest, many thanks to the extended Oosterom family, Hans, Joke, Jurian, and Paul, Marit and Feran Franssen.