Derrida's Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath (incitements)
by Charles Barbour /
2017 / English / PDF
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The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's
private email account - the secret is arguably the central element
of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour
looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?'
The Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wolf' terrorist, Clinton's
private email account - the secret is arguably the central element
of our contemporary political experience. Now, Charles Barbour
looks at the basic ontological question 'what is a secret?'
Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on
secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society
and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception,
and time and death.
Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on
secrecy, four chapters each look at a separate problematic: society
and the oath, literature and testimony, philosophy and deception,
and time and death.
Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with
others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only
reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other)
insofar as we conceal as well.
Barbour shows that secrecy is not a negation of our relations with
others, but a necessary condition of those relations. We can only
reveal ourselves to one another (and, indeed, to anything other)
insofar as we conceal as well.
