Peggy Kamuf

Datos Biográficos

ID256382
NOMBREPeggy Kamuf
NOMBRESPeggy
APELLIDOKamuf
FIRMAKAMUF P
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Southern California
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS84
TOTAL DE CITAS130
TOTAL COMO AUTOR83
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1979
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Attraction, Distraction

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEOxford Literary Review2025

  • Nick at the quick of things

    Peggy KamufARTICLETextual Practice2025

    This is a quick review of Nick Royle's quickness, and the quickening of his thought

  • A plus d’un titre

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEWord and Text - A Journal of…2024

    This essay, in multiple voices, traces figures of plurality and multiplicity across Derrida’s work and the leverage they provide against several metaphysical concepts. It pays special attention to titles that employ plurals, of which there are very many, and to the pluralization of proper names. There is particular focus on Fichus, Specters of Marx, The Animal That Therefore I Am, as well as a number of other major texts

  • Hospitality, Volume II

    Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault et al.BOOKHospitality, Volume II2024

  • Reading-Idioms ( de la poussance )

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEDerrida Today2023

    This essay traces the figure of the ‘leap’ in the second year of Derrida’s Beast and the Sovereign seminar, where it crosses in a significant way the central concern with Walten in Heidegger’s thought. A key question for the reading is about the impulse, drive or push behind all these leaps. Precipitated out is a notion that names what is neither subject nor object, action nor passion, but de la poussance, a noun forged on the model of those thir…

  • On the Scattered Legacy of Specters of Marx

    Peggy KamufARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2023Referencias: 2

    How to inherit Specters of Marx? How to inherit this work that is all about inheritance as the irreducible condition of any possible relation to a past and also to a future, the future of Marx and Marxism, to be sure, but also to any future whatsoever? How to receive its legacy while acknowledging the ways it complicates this scene and yet without merely folding it back on itself, applying it to itself in an act of repetition that ends up finally…

  • Editor’s Preface

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEOxford Literary Review2022

  • Reading Pieces

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEOxford Literary Review2022

    These are three pieces on reading (‘surface reading’, teaching and learning to read) that take lessons from Flaubert, Derrida, Billy Collins and Rousseau

  • Teaching to Live, Finally

    Peggy KamufARTICLEPoetics Today2021Referencias: 1

    This article aligns moments from three of Derrida's seminars and seeks to characterize the signature gesture of his teaching, which may be described as putting his teaching body, or corps enseignant, on an indivisible line supposed to divide mortal bodies from the bodies of institutions. It is a gesture that puts before us and on the line the mortal face of the "glorious body" sublated by philosophy and its teaching

  • Visitation

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEDerrida Today2020

  • How Not to Translate—the Untranslatable

    Peggy KamufARTICLEPhilosophy Today2020

    This essay proceeds from the assertion that Derrida’s work has consistently been concerned with translation. This has been clearly evident since “Plato’s Pharmacy” (1968). This concern comes to the fore in Geschlecht III, where countless features of Heidegger’s language are underscored as untranslatable. This does not prevent Derrida from proposing re-translations, of doing what he describes as “harassing” Heidegger’s language “with wave after wa…

  • Leavings

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEOxford Literary Review2020

  • Chris Johnson's Writing Lesson

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEParagraph2020Referencias: 1

    This essay traces the insistent and repeated attention Christopher Johnson pays to the episode in Tristes tropiques that Lévi-Strauss calls 'The Writing Lesson' and that Derrida reads as a parable and symptom of the ethnophonocentrism dictating the anthropologist's account. Johnson returns to this scene and this reading in each of his three books, and at some length in two of them. There is also an appreciative assessment of the writing lesson Jo…

  • Life Death

    Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault et al.BOOKLife Death2020Citada por: 10

    "In these seminar sessions, philosopher Jacques Derrida deconstructs perhaps the oldest dichotomy of all-life and death-giving him the opportunity to delve into a broad range of topics, from the work of French geneticist FrancÌʹois Jacob and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem to Freudian psychoanalysis and modern German philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Heidegger. Throughout, Derrida's attention is, as ever, on language, especially when it come…

  • Theory and Practice

    Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington et al.BOOKTheory and Practice2019

  • Big Old Theory

    Peggy KamufARTICLEContemporary French and…2019

    The article retraces the author’s experience, beginning in the early 1970s, of French Theory. It was the experience of a fulgurance, which continues to draw its force of renewal from a future it cannot foretell

  • Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

    Open AccessPeggy KamufBOOKLiterature and the Remains of the…2018

    Jacques Derrida has written that “the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.” How, Kamuf asks, does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind in a nation that professes to be a democracy? What resources do fiction, narrative, and poeti…

  • Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

    Peggy KamufBOOKLiterature and the Remains of the…2018

    This book pursues Derrida’s assertion, in The Death Penalty, Volume I , that “the modern history of the institution named literature in Europe over the last three or four centuries is contemporary with and indissociable from a contestation of the death penalty.” The main question this book poses is: How does literature contest the death penalty today, particularly in the United States where it remains the last of its kind, a Christian-inspired de…

  • Comes a Letter in the Mail

    Peggy KamufARTICLEdifferences2017Referencias: 4

    The bad object of this essay is reading. It assembles fragments of an abandoned project that would have posed the delirious thesis of universal reading disorder. There are four fragments, which analyze scenes of the other reading from Augustine, Rousseau, Flaubert, and Blanchot. They argue against at least two fundamental assumptions in the reading sciences: that anyone ever knows how to read and that the other's reading can be seen other than in…

  • Artaud the Moma

    Jacques Derrida, Kaira M Cabañas et al.BOOKArtaud the Moma2017

  • Penelope at Work

    Peggy KamufCHAPTERVirginia Woolf2016

    This chapter considers Penelope in order to give a name to what is at work in a text like A Room of One's Own, although the phrase 'at work' already covers up in too purposeful a fashion the way in which such work entails as well its own undoing. It explores Penelope as a shuttling figure in power's household, one whose movement between outside and inside, violence and poetry, the work of history and the unworking of fiction may allow us to frame…

  • Le philosophe, en tant que tel, et la peine de mort

    Peggy KamufARTICLELignes2016

  • Veines

    Peggy KamufARTICLERue Descartes2014

  • Ten Thoughts for a Decade

    Open AccessPeggy KamufARTICLEOxford Literary Review2014

  • Caracol

    Peggy KamufARTICLEdifferences2014Referencias: 4

    Taking an improbable caracol or snail as a guide to thinking about translation, this essay ponders the sensation of tongues touching and entwining, like hermaphroditic mollusks making love. Advancing in successive whorls, rather than along the straight line of argument, it touches on, among other things, the translator's modesty or "invisibility"; on the chance of the lucky find or fortuitous encounter; on the "passion for translation" (Derrida);…