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In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of "the end the world" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, the term salut, which in French means at once greeting and salvation. An underlying concern of The World after the End of the World is whether a discourse on salut (saving, being saved, and salvation) can be dissociated from discourse on religion. Saghafi compares Derrida's thought along these lines with similar concerns of Jean-Luc Nancy's. Combining analysis of these themes with reflections on personal loss, this book maintains that, for Derrida, salutation, greeting, and welcoming is resistant to the economy of salvation. This resistance calls for what Derrida refers to as a "spectro-poetics" devoted to and assigned to the other's singularity.
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Prologue: Salut—A Spectro-Poetics

The End of the World

1. The World after the End of the World

Intact

2. Safe, Intact: Derrida, Nancy, and the "Deconstruction of Christianity"
The Unscathed
Tact and Touch
Do Not Wish to Touch Me
Intact
There's Deconstruction, and then, There's Deconstruction

Death

3. Derrida Is the Death of Death
Death
The Proper Is Stronger than Life and Death
Aporias
Marranos
Side

Resurrection

4. Nancy's Resurrection
Resurrection
Eternal Life
Nancy's Eternal Life

Survivance

5. The Desire for Survival?
Desire
Finitude
Immortality
Dead—Immortal
The Impossibility of Dying
The Desire for Survival?

6. For a Time: The Time of Survival

7. Dying Alive: The Phantasmatics of Living-Death
The Phantasm
The Phantasm of Dying Alive
Thinking Death
The Intemporality of the Unconscious
The Phantasm and the Event
Survivance
The Weave
Ground
Perhaps an Other Time, Place, and Logic: Affect, the Phantasm, and the "As If "

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Philosophy of religion

Philosophy

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Date de parution	01 avril 2020
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EAN13	9781438478227
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The World after the End of the World
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
The World after the End of the World
A Spectro-Poetics
Kas Saghafi
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Names: Saghafi, Kas, author.
Title: The world after the end of the world : a spectro-poetics / Kas Saghafi.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020. | Series: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049042 (print) | LCCN 2019049043 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438478210 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438478227 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Derrida, Jacques. | Nancy, Jean-Luc. | Salvation. | Loss (Psychology) | Death. | Other (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC B2430.D484 S245 2020 (print) | LCC B2430.D484 (ebook) | DDC 194—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049042
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For the love of my life, Pleshette— who was my world
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue: Salut— A Spectro-Poetics
The End of the World
1. The World after the End of the World
Intact
2. Safe, Intact: Derrida, Nancy, and the “Deconstruction of Christianity”
The Unscathed
Tact and Touch
Do Not Wish to Touch Me
Intact
There’s Deconstruction, and then, There’s Deconstruction
Death
3. Derrida Is the Death of Death
Death
The Proper Is Stronger than Life and Death
Aporias
Marranos
Side
Resurrection
4. Nancy’s Resurrection
Resurrection
Eternal Life
Nancy’s Eternal Life
Survivance
5. The Desire for Survival?
Desire
Finitude
Immortality
Dead—Immortal
The Impossibility of Dying
The Desire for Survival?
6. For a Time: The Time of Survival
7. Dying Alive: The Phantasmatics of Living-Death
The Phantasm
The Phantasm of Dying Alive
Thinking Death
The Intemporality of the Unconscious
The Phantasm and the Event
Survivance
The Weave
Ground
Perhaps an Other Time, Place, and Logic: Affect, the Phantasm, and the “As If”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
This book would not have been written without the moral support of the two J’s, my and Pleshette’s ever faithful friends, Justine Malle and Joanne Molina.
I wish to extend my profound and warm gratitude to Ester and Dariush Saghafi, Dara and Yoli Saghafi, Alex da Ponte, Karen Mulford, Sally Aron, Jerry Aron, Fern Kelly, and John Rowley.
During the early stages of the manuscript, Dawne McCance and an anonymous reader provided very careful and expert advice, for which I’m grateful. The revised draft profited enormously from Ginette Michaud’s very generous and detailed reading and astute comments. I wish to thank my editor Andrew Kenyon, Ryan Morris, Dana Foote and Dennis J. Schmidt, the series editor, for their extremely helpful advice.
I am deeply indebted to Michael Naas—our director, our teacher, our friend—and Pascale-Anne Brault. I am grateful for the friendship and collegiality of Geoffrey Bennington, Peggy Kamuf, Elizabeth Rottenberg, David Wills, Ellen Burt, Kir Kuiken, and Katie Chenoweth, my esteemed fellow travelers and members of the équipe at the Derrida Seminars Translation Project (DSTP). In addition to Nicholas Royle, Sarah Wood, and Timothy Clark of the Oxford Literary Review , they have been my true intellectual interlocutors.
I am especially grateful for the friendship of Elissa Marder, Kelly Oliver, Jill and Alan Schrift, Sarah Marshall, Chris Vickers, Crina Gschwandtner, David “Topper” Scott, Marygrace Hemme, Nicolas Pernot, Audrey Petit, Dylan Trigg, Ginger Guin, and Adam Rosenthal.
I am grateful to the following friends and colleagues: Amy Allen, Alia Al-Haji, Nicole Anderson, Charles Bambach, Andrew Benjamin, Tina Chanter, Andrew Cutrofello, Paul Davies, Jacques De Ville, Penny Deutscher, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Rodolphe Gasché, Simon Glendenning, Leigh Johnson, Claire Katz, Shannon Lundeen, Mary Beth Mader, Martin McQuillan, Elaine Miller, Peter Milne, Steven Miller, Andrew Mitchell, Simon Morgan Wortham, Andrew Parker, Eftichis Pirovolakis, Jeffrey Powell, Alison Ross, Isabelle Ullern, Francesco Vitale, Ewa Ziarek, and Kris Ziarek.
I am especially indebted to Anne Laptin, Peg Christopher, Sarah Lebovitz, Melvin Goldin, and Bethany Spiller who provided care in the time of need.
I would be remiss not to thank all the librarians and library staff who have over the years facilitated my research: Wayne Key, Frankie Perry, Paula Phillips, Susan Wood, Blake Galbreath, Zach Sandberg, and Gail Barton.
I would like to thank Heidi Samuelson for the preparation of the index.
Early versions of several chapters have been previously published. An early version of chapter 1, “ The World after the End of the World ,” was published in Oxford Literary Review 39, no. 2 (December 2017): 265–276.
An early version of chapter 5, “ The Desire for Survival ?,” was published in Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy , edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), 139–160.
An early version of chapter 6, “ For a Time ,” was published in Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 23, no. 2 (2015): 122–130.
An early version of chapter 7, “ Dying Alive ,” was published in Mosaic 48, no. 3 (September 2015): 15–26.
All chapters have been rewritten and revised.
Abbreviations
Works by Jacques Derrida
All references are given to the French edition, followed by the English edition. Where the translation is not indicated, translations are my own. A Apories . Paris: Galilée, 1996. Aporias . Translated by Thomas Dutoit. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. The English version is a translation of an article, “Apories: Mourir-s’attendre aux limites de la vérité,” published in Le passage des frontières: autour du travail de Jacques Derrida . Paris: Galilée, 1993. Ad Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas . Paris: Galilée, 1997. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas as Adieu: To Emmanuel Levinas . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. AF Mal d’Archive. Une impression freudienne . Paris: Galilée, 1995; rpt. 2008. Archive Fever . Translated by Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. An L’animal que donc je suis . Edited by Marie-Louise Mallet. Paris: Galilée, 2006. The Animal That Therefore I Am . Edited by Marie-Louise Mallet, translated by David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. Av “Avances.” In Serge Margel, Le Tombeau du dieu artisan: Sur Platon . Paris: Minuit, 1995, 11–43. Advances . Translated by Philippe Lynes. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Cir “Circonfession.” In Jacques Derrida [with Geoffrey Bennington]. Paris: Seuil, 1991, reed. 2008. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington as “Circumfession,” in Jacques Derrida . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. CFU Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde . Paris: Galilée, 2003. The original English version The Work of Mourning . Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2001. CN “Comment nommer.” In Le poète que je cherche à être . Edited by Yves Charnet. Paris: La Table Ronde/Belin, 1996, 182–206. Translated by Wilson Baldridge. “How to Name.” In Michel Deguy, Recumbents: Poems . Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005, 191–221. “Cnp” “Comment ne pas trembler.” Annali della Fondazione Europea del Disegno (Fondation Adami) , vol. 2. Milan: B. Mondadori, 2006. Con Le «concept» du 11 septembre. Dialogues a New York ( octobre–decembre 2001) avec Giovanna Borradori . Paris: Galilée, 2004. Translated by Giovanna Borradori as Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Cos Cosmopolite de tous les pays, encore un effort! Paris: Galilée, 1997. Translated by Mark Dooley as “On Cosmopolitanism,” in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness . New York: Routledge, 2016. D Demeure—Maurice Blanchot . Paris: Galilée, 1998. Demeure: Fiction and Testimony . Translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Published with Maurice Blanchot’s The Instant of My Death . DA “D