Derrida’s Umbrapolitics

This essay focuses on political implications of Derrida’s messianicité as a form of Marrano messianism: a universal vision of community “out of joints” which, despite its disjointedness and inner separation, nonetheless addresses itself as “we” (although always in inverted commas). By referring to the generalized “Marrano experience” – the fate of those Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and, in consequence, became neither Jewish nor Christian – Derrida takes the Marrano as his paradigmatic political figure of a “rogue” (voyou) who escapes every identity politics. In Derrida’s project of “living together” (vivre ensemble), the Marrano stands for the non-participatory remnant of otherness which is not just the other of this or that particular tradition, but becomes a bearer of a new universalism, based not on the abstract notion of human nature but on the non-identity, a distance-from-identity or what Yirmijahu Yovel calls the “non-integral identity

Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

• The ritual process

  Victor Witter Turner•The ritual process•1977

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• The Other Within

  Yirmiyahu Yovel•Other Within : The Marranos•2009

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• The Death Penalty, Volume I

  Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf•Death Penalty, Volume I•2013

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• Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin

  Didier Maleuvre•SubStance•1999

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• Writing and Difference

  Jacques Derrida, Alan S Bass et al.•Writing and Difference•1980

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• Ghostly Demarcations

  Open Access•Jacques Derrida, Michael Sprinker•Capital & Class•2002

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• The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

  Jacques Derrida, David Wills•The Gift of Death, Second Edition…•2008

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• The Ritual Process

  Victor Turner, Alfred Harris et al.•Ritual Process•2017

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