On the name
By: Jacques Derrida ; edited by Thomas Dutoit.
Contributors: Dutoit, Thomas.; Derrida, Jacques.; Derrida, Jacques.; Derrida, Jacques.
Series: Meridian : crossing aesthetics; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Plato.; Emotions (Philosophy); Names.; Deconstruction.
Description: Passions: "An Oblique Offering" is a reflection on the question of the response, on the duty and obligation to respond, and on the possibility of not responding - which is to say, on the ethics and politics of responsibility. Sauf le nom (Post Scriptum) considers the problematics of naming and alterity, or transcendence, raised inevitably by a rigorous negative theology. Much of the text is organized around close readings of the poetry of Angelus Silesius.

The final essay, Khora, explores the problem of space or spacing, of the word khora in Plato's Timaeus. Even as it places and makes possible nothing less than the whole world, khora opens and dislocates, displaces, all the categories that govern the production of that world, from naming to gender. In addition to readers in philosophy and literature, Khora will be of special interest to those in the burgeoning field of "space studies" (architecture, urbanism, design.).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-150).
Table of contents: title: Translating the name? / by Thomas Dutoit; title: Passions; title: Sauf le nom (Post-scriptum); title: Khōra.