Thinking the Ghost
Tragedy and the History of Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21790498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Reynolds (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-66 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Derrida Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-8519 • E-ISSN: 1754-8500 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/drt.2021.0252 |
| OpenAlex | W3157272438 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
In this paper I examine the role of tragedy in the ancient emergence of philosophical interiority and in the recent return of exteriority that marks the birth of theory. I argue that tragedy names a kind of epistemic threshold between systems of knowledge predicated on exteriority and interiority. I conclude by arguing that Derrida's late effort to articulate a messianic model of the tragic in Specters of Marx and elsewhere, his effort to “think the ghost,” both confirms and complicates tragedy's place in the history of theory
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Beginnings
Trauma
Reading Greek Tragedy
Paradigms for a Metaphorology
The State of Exception
The dialectic of enlightenment
Foucault
Dante
Writing and Difference
The Order of Things
Why evangelicals voted for Trump
The Iliad of Homer
Faux Pas
Ambiguity and Reversal
The Time That Remains
The Greeks and the Irrational
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |