• Celan, Levinas, and Derrida on Representation and the Unrepresentable

  • Apr 24 2023
  • Length: 44 mins
  • Podcast

Celan, Levinas, and Derrida on Representation and the Unrepresentable

  • Summary

  • A discussion of Paul Celan's essay "The Meridian," along with companion pieces of Emmanuel Levinas. Claude Lanzmann, and Jacques Derrida, with particular focus on the poetic word's capacity to bring the deconstructive, dismantling, and interruptive function of absence in reckoning with traumatic experience. How does such a word reflect an ethics of speaking about catastrophe?

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