On Futurity: Malabou, Nancy and Derrida

by Jean-Paul Martinon

Book Overview

This book explores the ways deconstruction addresses the issue of futurity (what Jacques Derrida calls the "to-come," l' -venir]). In order to achieve this, it focuses on three French expressions, venue, survenue, and voir-venir, each taken from the work of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Catherine Malabou. The idea behind this focus is to elude the issue of the one and only "to-come," as if this was a uniform and coherent entity or structure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230506844
• ISBN13: 9780230506848
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.2"