{"product_id":"sovereignties-in-question-the-poetics-of-paul-celan-9780823224388","title":"Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together five powerful encounters. Themes central to all of Derrida's writings thread the intense confrontation between the most famous philosopher of our time and the Jewish poet writing in German who, perhaps more powerfully than any other, has testified to the European experience of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; temporal structures of futurity and the \"to come\"; the multiplicity of language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony and promising, but also lying and perjury; the possibility of the impossible; and, above all, the question of the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge, seeking to speak to and for the irreducibly other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe memory of encounters with thinkers who have also engaged Celan's work animates these writings, which include a brilliant dialogue between two interpretative modes--hermeneutics and deconstruction. Derrida's approach to a poem is a revelation on many levels, from the most concrete ways of reading--for example, his analysis of a sequence of personal pronouns--to the most sweeping imperatives of human existence (and Derrida's writings are always a study in the imbrication of such levels). Above all, he voices the call to responsibility in the ultimate line of Celan's poem: \"The world is gone, I must carry you,\" which sounds throughout the book's final essay like a refrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly two of the texts in this volume do not appear here in English for the first time. Of these, \u003cem\u003eSchibboleth \u003c\/em\u003ehas been entirely retranslated and has been set following Derrida's own instructions for publication in French; \"A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text\" was substantially rewritten by Derrida himself and basically appears here as the translation of a new text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Derrida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Perspectives in Continental Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.14w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823224388","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43962550419593,"sku":"9780823224388","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_73b43989-49a9-48d8-9277-365a2877e364.jpg?v=1746511229","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/sovereignties-in-question-the-poetics-of-paul-celan-9780823224388","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}