A Moment of Madness
Derrida's Kierkegaard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11896262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Bennington (0000-0002-7167-7508, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-127 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oxford Literary Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-1498 • E-ISSN: 1757-1634 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/olr.2011.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2002955631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Beginning with his famous 1963 lecture on Foucault, Derrida repeatedly invokes a line from Kierkegaard, often translated from his French as ‘the instant of decision is madness,’ without ever giving a precise reference or subjecting that sentence to anything like a reading in the Derridean sense. This paper tracks some of the unsuspected complexities that emerge when that sentence is located in Kierkegaard and the Pauline tradition to which Kierkegaard is appealing. It is suggested that the singular functioning of this sentence in Derrida nonetheless, in its very failure to read, shows up something of the madness, folly or stupidity at play in Kierkegaard's thinking, and thus performs in its repetitions something of the unreadability that opens the possibility of reading itself
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sentence · Stupidity · Computer Science · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |