Why do the dead return? Are the dead lost to us for ever, or do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they persistently emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and in the works of thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and the psychoanalysts Ni
Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead
β Scribed by Colin Davis (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 188
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction: The Return of the Dead....Pages 1-19
Vampires, Death Drives and Silent Film....Pages 20-42
Sartreβs Living Dead....Pages 43-65
Lying Ghosts in Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis....Pages 66-92
The Ghosts of Auschwitz: Charlotte Delbo....Pages 93-110
Speaking with the Dead: De Man, Levinas, Agamben....Pages 111-127
Derridaβs Haunted Subjects....Pages 128-150
Burying the Dead....Pages 151-159
Back Matter....Pages 160-181
β¦ Subjects
Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; History of Philosophy; Psychoanalysis
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