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Derrida's Secret
Charles Barbour
其他書名
Perjury, Testimony, Oath
出版Edinburgh University Press, 2017-06-02
主題Philosophy / General
ISBN147442502X9781474425025
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xjZYDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. 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.