Anne Dufourmantelle

In Defense of Secrets

Übersetzer: Turner, Lindsay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In an epoch when transparency, openness, and candor, are constantly enjoined on us, and in which the message 'Secrets Kill' is driven home by everything from twelve-step groups to Lifetime TV, Dufourmantelle shows the powers that secrecy continues to hold. This urgent book will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media."-Michael Moon, Emory University Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her work lives on, though, in this provocative book on the fundamental psychic scene of the secret. The secret, for Dufourmantelle, is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity. In our age, when political and personal transparency seems to be prized above all-lives posted on the internet, information leaked, whistles blown- In Defense of Secrets champions what remains hidden, private, veiled, hushed, just out of sight. The secret may be deadly if unheard or misused, but Dufourmantelle shows how it is equally the source of creativity and of ethics. An ethics of the secret, we can hear her to say, means listening hard and sensitively, respecting the secret in its secret essence, unafraid of what it has to say. Anne Dufourmantelle, taught at the European Graduate School. Her books include In Praise of Risk; Power of Gentleness; Blind Date; and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality. Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 203mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9780823289233
• ISBN-10: 0823289230
• Artikelnr.: 58601451

Autorenporträt

Anne Dufourmantelle (Author) Anne Dufourmantelle (1964¿2017), philosopher and psychoanalyst, taught at the European Graduate School and wrote monthly columns for the Paris newspaper Libération. Her books in English include In Praise of Risk; Power of Gentleness; Blind Date; and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality . Lindsay Turner (Translator) Lindsay Turner a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preamble ix I. Memories of the Secret Origins 3 In the Crypt 6 Etymology 8 When the Secret Appears 10 Occult Force 14 II. The Secret
s Passions Lifting the Veil 19 The Unavowable 22 A Treasure, a Poison 25 Genesis 27 Storia I 29 III. Being or Having The Last Secret 39 The Body au secret 41 Eroticism 44 Storia II 47 Storia III 53 IV. Transparency and Truth Violations 59 Dissimulations 63 Surveillances 65 Adaptations 67 Mirages 69 Big Data, Hyperconnection, Speed: The Spiral 72 Archives 74 Secret Societies 77 The Unifying Secret 81 V. An Ethics of the Secret Panopticum: Bentham, Kant, Constant 85 Inappropriable 88 Creative Power 90 The Secret of Dreams 92 Sex and Prayer 95 Secret Sideration 97 Jealousies 102 The Conspiracy Theory 105 VI. Toward Mystery Secret Nature 109 Veils 111 Legacies 114 Aside 117 A Part of One
s Own 123 Secret of the Prophetic Voice 125 Sacrifice 129 Mystery
s Share 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 141