Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism

Clayton Crockett

Open Access Published by Fordham University Press 2018

Derrida after the End of Writing

Political Theology and New Materialism

Clayton Crockett

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823277865

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This book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.

Author / Editor information

Crockett Clayton :

Clayton Crockett is Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author a number of books, including Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event, Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory (Fordham), and, with Ward Blanton, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian, An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics.Clayton Crockett is Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author a number of books, including Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity and Event, Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory (Fordham), and, with Ward Blanton, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian, An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics.

Reviews

“This book is not for you—if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem.”

Clayton Crockett’s Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism is a book that not only offers an interpretive reading of Derrida’s major works but also shows how Derrida remains relevant both to and beyond philosophy today.

Crockett’s latest has brought together many threads he began weaving in previous work and has added still new ones, expanding and molding the conversation in continental philosophy of religion and political theology in exciting directions.

...Crockett's book is an extremely important work on the future of deconstruction. Not only does it engage with much of the current scholarship on Derrida and on contemporary continental philosophy more generally, but it also makes a compelling case for a post-writing reading of Derrida, and is sure to make a lasting impact on how we read and think with Derrida.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Derrida and the New Materialism Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Reading Derrida Reading Religion Open Access Download PDF	13
2. Surviving Chris tian ity Open Access Download PDF	27
3. Political Theology Without Sovereignty Open Access Download PDF	43
4. Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram Derrida’s Reading of Celan Open Access Download PDF	59
5. Derrida, Lacan, and Object- Oriented Ontology Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Open Access Download PDF	74
6. Radical Theology and the Event Caputo’s Derridean Gospel Open Access Download PDF	93
7. Deconstructive Plasticity Malabou’s Biological Materialism Open Access Download PDF	109
8. Quantum Derrida Barad’s Hauntological Materialism Open Access Download PDF	121
Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers— A Love Letter Open Access Download PDF	139
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	157
Notes Open Access Download PDF	159
Index Open Access Download PDF	181

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 192
Keywords: Catherine Malabou; deconstruction; Jacques Derrida; John D. Caputo; materialism; Political Theology; religion

eBook

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9780823277865