The Marrano Specter

The Marrano Specter

Derrida and Hispanism

With contributions by: Patrick Dove, Jaime Hanneken, Erin Graff Zivin, David Kelman, Brett Levinson, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras and Gareth Williams
Edited by: Erin Graff Zivin
Preface by: Peggy Kamuf
Afterword by: Geoffrey Bennington

Fordham University Press | 2017

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823277704

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The Marrano Specter brings together work by major scholars who collectively pursue the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism: his reception within intellectual circles in Spain and Latin America, on the one hand, and the Hispanist or marrano inflection of Derrida’s philosophical writings on the other.

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Graff Zivin Erin :

Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association) and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008).Kamuf Peggy :

Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.Bennington Geoffrey :

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.Graff Zivin Erin :

Brett Levinson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Ends of Literature: The Latin American "Boom" in the Neoliberal Marketplace and Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima's "American Expression."Lezra Jacques :

Jacques Lezra is Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of California—Riverside. His most recent book is On the Nature of Marx’s Things: Translation as Necrophilology (Fordham, 2018).Williams Gareth :

Gareth Williams is Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan.Geoffrey Bennington (Afterword By)
Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.

Erin Graff Zivin (Edited By)
Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (winner of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Award) and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary.

Peggy Kamuf (Foreword By)
Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

Andrew Parker:
The Marrano Specter dazzles in all of its parts and as a whole. What preoccupies that whole--deconstruction? Hispanism? both? neither?--may turn out to be its secret subject, which makes this collection an exemplary meditation on the nature of identity and the limits of disciplinary thinking.

Rachel Price, Princeton University:
A study of both how Derridean scholarship and concepts have shaped the world of Hispanism, and Iberian history as it marked Derrida biographically and intellectually, through the philosopher’s abiding interest in the marrano, a figure at once historical and theoretical, identitarian and anti-identiarian. This work by top-notch scholars will contribute to larger debates about disciplinarity and the university today. While the authors locate the traditions they engage in a specifically 'hispanist' history, they indicate how the philosophical interventions are universal and universalizable.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
contents Free access PDF PDF	v
foreword Peggy Kamuf Free access PDF PDF	vii
Introduction: Derrida’s Marranismo Erin Graff Zivin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
part I. Marrano Indisciplinarity
chapter 1. Cervantes on “Derrida”: Hispanism in the Open Jacques Lezra Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
chapter 2. Spectral Comparisons: Cortázar and Derrida David Kelman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	31
chapter 3. On Mondialatinization, or Saving the Name of the Latin Jaime Hanneken Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	49
part II. Form and Secrecy
chapter 4. The Jew or Patriarchy (or Worse) Brett Levinson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
chapter 5. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Form, Matter, and Secrecy in Derrida, de Man, and Borges Patrick Dove Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	81
part III. Between Nonethics and Infrapolitics
chapter 6. Marrano Spirit? . . . and Hispanism, or Responsibility in 2666 Gareth Williams Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	103
chapter 7. Infrapolitical Derrida: The Ontic Determination of Politics beyond Empiricism Alberto Moreiras Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	116
chapter 8. Deconstruction and Its Precursors: Levinas and Borges after Derrida Erin Graff Zivin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	138
Afterword Geoffrey Bennington Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	153
acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	159
index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	163

The Marrano Specter

Derrida and Hispanism

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