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Desire in Ashes

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This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Pleshette DeArmitt

Desire in Ashes

Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy

Edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano

Bloomsbury Academic
An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Chiara Alfano is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Humanities at Kingston University, London. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently working on a monograph-length study that looks at the figure of the infant in post-war literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and feminist texts. She has published on the cross-fertilizations between literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis, in particular in relation to Stanley Cavell, Jacques Derrida and Shakespeare. She is also reviews editor at The Oxford Literary Review .

Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Department of Religion, the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His books include Our Place in Al-Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007) and Blood: A Critique of Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). He also edited Jacques Derridas Acts of Religion (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).

Elissa Marder is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University. She is the author of Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001) and The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012). With E. S. Burt and Kevin Newmark, she also edited Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History) , Yale French Studies Vol. 125/126 (2014). She has published essays on diverse topics in literature, literary theory, feminism, film, photography and psychoanalysis.

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. He is co-director of the London Graduate School. His books include Counter-Institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), Derrida: Writing Events (London and New York: Continuum, 2008), The Derrida Dictionary (London and New York: Continuum, 2010), The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013) and Modern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014). His latest book, Phobia , is due to appear in 2016.

Herman Rapaport is Reynolds Professor of English at Wake Forest University. Among his many books are Milton and the Postmodern (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1983), Heidegger and Derrida : Reflections on Time and Language (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), Between the Sign and the Gaze (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), Is There Truth in Art? (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), The Theory Mess: Deconstruction in Eclipse (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work (London and New York: Routledge, 2004) and The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

Kas Saghafi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Apparitions Of Derridas Other (Fordham: Fordham University Press, 2010) and has also published articles on contemporary French thought in journals such as Bulletin de la Socit Amricaine de Philosophie de Langue Franaise , International Studies in Philosophy , Mosaic , Parallax , Philosophy Today and Research in Phenomenology . He is co-translator of Derridas A Europe of Hope and Aletheia.

Cline Surprenant is an associate researcher to the Chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature: History, Criticism, Theory (Antoine Compagnon), Collge de France, Paris, and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex. Her publications include Freuds Mass Psychology: Questions of Scale (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), Freud: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2008) and articles on Marcel Proust, Charles Darwin and psychoanalysis, among other topics. She has translated Jean-Luc Nancys Speculative Remark: One of Hegels bon mots (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Lynn Turner is Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is one of the assistant editors of Derrida Today and arts editor of parallax for which she has also co-edited several issues. Her books include Visual Cultures as Recollection (co-authored with Astrid Schmetterling, Berlin: Sternberg, 2013), The Animal Question in Deconstruction (edited, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (co-edited with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016). She is currently writing a monograph on autobiographies of the performative in visual culture.

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Excerpt from Poetry as Experience by Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe, translated by Andrea Tarnowski. Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University English translation. All rights reserved. Used with the permission of Stanford University Press.