On Futurity: Malabou, Nancy and Derrida
On Futurity: Malabou, Nancy and Derrida By Jean-Paul Martinon
2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0230506844 | PDF | 2 MB
2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0230506844 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the ways deconstruction addresses the issue of futurity (what Jacques Derrida calls the "to-come," [l'Ã -venir]). In order to achieve this, it focuses on three French expressions, venue, survenue, and voir-venir, each taken from the work of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Catherine Malabou. The idea behind this focus is to elude the issue of the one and only "to-come," as if this was a uniform and coherent entity or structure of experience, and to put forward instead the possibility of a multiplicity of structures, each with a different intonation or pitch. Overall, this book makes an original contribution to the way deconstruction addresses the issue of futurity in the act of writing and translation.