A translation of Louis Althusser's "Sur l'objectivité de l'histoire (Réponse à Paul Ricœur)." Déc... more A translation of Louis Althusser's "Sur l'objectivité de l'histoire (Réponse à Paul Ricœur)." Décalages, 2.2 (2018).
A translation of Walter Benjamin's 1936 "Pariser Brief [1]: André Gide und sein neuer Gegner," wi... more A translation of Walter Benjamin's 1936 "Pariser Brief [1]: André Gide und sein neuer Gegner," with an afterword by the translator. Barricade 1.1 (2018).
Jacques Derrida's “Admiration de Nelson Mandela, ou Les lois de la réflexion,” here newly transla... more Jacques Derrida's “Admiration de Nelson Mandela, ou Les lois de la réflexion,” here newly translated, was first published in Pour Nelson Mandela (Gallimard, 1986), a collection that Derrida conceived of and edited alongside Mustapha Tlili, and which included contributions from Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Hélène Cixous, Edmond Jabès, and Susan Sontag, among others. In his preface to the English edition, Tlili recalls that that the idea for the book had “originated in a dialogue between Antonio Saura, Jacques Derrida, and me during our congenial, enthusiastic collaboration on the exhibition catalogue [for the traveling exhibition, launched in 1983, Art contre/against Apartheid].” (Derrida had contributed an essay to that catalogue as well, “Le dernier mot du racisme,” which a few years later would become the subject of a minor polemic in the back pages of Critical Inquiry.) “Here,” Tlili continues, “you will find no slogan, proclamation, declaration, or anything like a cult of personality. The goal was to gather literary acts of compassion and rigor controlled only by each writer's art and creativity.” Compassion and rigor, he says, and I think that it merits underlining. For these values – and it hardly goes without saying that they should be naturally or easily conjugated – Derrida refracts, as it were, through the lens or the optic, which is also and above all a rhetorical as well as a philosophical device, of admiration.
A translation of Louis Althusser's "Sur l'objectivité de l'histoire (Réponse à Paul Ricœur)." Déc... more A translation of Louis Althusser's "Sur l'objectivité de l'histoire (Réponse à Paul Ricœur)." Décalages, 2.2 (2018).
A translation of Walter Benjamin's 1936 "Pariser Brief [1]: André Gide und sein neuer Gegner," wi... more A translation of Walter Benjamin's 1936 "Pariser Brief [1]: André Gide und sein neuer Gegner," with an afterword by the translator. Barricade 1.1 (2018).
Jacques Derrida's “Admiration de Nelson Mandela, ou Les lois de la réflexion,” here newly transla... more Jacques Derrida's “Admiration de Nelson Mandela, ou Les lois de la réflexion,” here newly translated, was first published in Pour Nelson Mandela (Gallimard, 1986), a collection that Derrida conceived of and edited alongside Mustapha Tlili, and which included contributions from Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Hélène Cixous, Edmond Jabès, and Susan Sontag, among others. In his preface to the English edition, Tlili recalls that that the idea for the book had “originated in a dialogue between Antonio Saura, Jacques Derrida, and me during our congenial, enthusiastic collaboration on the exhibition catalogue [for the traveling exhibition, launched in 1983, Art contre/against Apartheid].” (Derrida had contributed an essay to that catalogue as well, “Le dernier mot du racisme,” which a few years later would become the subject of a minor polemic in the back pages of Critical Inquiry.) “Here,” Tlili continues, “you will find no slogan, proclamation, declaration, or anything like a cult of personality. The goal was to gather literary acts of compassion and rigor controlled only by each writer's art and creativity.” Compassion and rigor, he says, and I think that it merits underlining. For these values – and it hardly goes without saying that they should be naturally or easily conjugated – Derrida refracts, as it were, through the lens or the optic, which is also and above all a rhetorical as well as a philosophical device, of admiration.
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