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differences (2005) 16 (3): v–vii.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Sophie Bassouls/Corbis Sygma Derrida’s Gift: Introductory Note [W]e cannot be sure that there is ever a gift. —Derrida, “Women in the Beehive” With this special issue, we mark Jacques Derrida’s inesti...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 68–75.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror . New York: Pantheon, 2004 . drucilla cornell Derrida: The Gift of the Future Like many others, I have been shocked, if not horrifi ed...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 76–87.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... susan bernstein The Gift of Metaphor As we all know, time is tight. Yet, despite the tight economy to which our time is subject, it would be amiss not to respond to a call about Derrida’s gift. As unprepared or incapable one...
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differences (2005) 16 (1): 103–125.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. James Strachey. Vol. 21 . London: Hogarth, 1955 . 225 -43. 24 vols. 1953-74. ____. “Negation.” 1925 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 19 . 235 -39. “Gift.” The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989 . Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 30–74.
Published: 01 April 1998
... .” Perspectives on Embodiment . Ed. Haber Honi and Weiss Gail . New York : Routledge , forthcoming. CHARLES SHEPHERDS ON The Gift of Love and the Debt of Desire It is the child one feeds with most love who refuses food and plays with his refusal as with a desire (anorexia nervosa). (Lacan...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 41–51.
Published: 01 December 2005
... pheng cheah Obscure Gifts: On Jacques Derrida Derrida’s work is commonly described as obscure. How comforting it must be to hear him admit as much in his 1968 essay on “Différance,” the neographism that is inseparable from...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Catherine Malabou This essay confronts Peter Singer’s vision of the gift with Jacques Derrida’s by examining the claims of “effective altruism,” a movement of which Singer is the most prominent representative. While Derrida argues that giving for the sake of giving is impossible to the extent...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 106–128.
Published: 01 December 2023
... to forget: the sense of vulnerability that leads people, in ways conscious and unconscious, to collude with power and seek privileges. In the process, the essay brings into focus the image of Levi as a gifted teacher, deeply interested in and responsive to his young readers and students. wexler.anthony...
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differences (2005) 16 (2): 116–137.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Es gibt; cela donne/ il y a; it gives. What gives itself shows itself. What shows itself gives itself, absolutely. The giving cannot not give, and the given attests to the giving in the gift that is given by it. Equally and in a similar...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 139–157.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the journal with the transcript of the Pembroke Seminar with Jacques Derrida. His emphasis on differences rather than “difference,” and the radical theoretical possibilities offered by the notion of “the gift” seems appropriate...
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 82–118.
Published: 01 November 1998
... UP , 1985 . Lévi-Strauss Claude . The Elementary Structures of Kinship . Boston : Beacon P , 1969 . Magendie Maurice . La politesse mondaine et les théories de l'honnêteté, en France, au XVIIe siècle, de 1600 à 1660 . Paris : Alcan , 1925 . Mauss Marcel . The Gift...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 194–223.
Published: 01 December 2009
... are rendered inhuman and placed outside of the human community. We suggest that this exclusion inaugurates a crisis of ethics, which the film attempts to resolve by its closing gesture of the gift of love. Still Life...
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 45–76.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and the general, the gift and the exchange are kept separate and made the conditions of each other’s meaningfulness. Moreover, they name sets of practices in which money is made the instrument of a contagion that moves along the paths...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 88–94.
Published: 01 December 2005
... 89 gift to feminism, which we may receive as a gift even though it was never given to feminists as such—a true gift, a gift given not as gift—is this con- cept of difference, the very concept whose contours explain not only...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 142–164.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Dogville do not know how to receive; they do not know how to accept a gift. This is why Grace’s arrival makes him so happy: finally, there is a real test case for his theory. 9 Grace is the present that Dogville will have to learn to accept. 10 Here begins von Trier’s critique of Western society...
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differences (2017) 28 (3): 136–165.
Published: 01 December 2017
... example of this sociological line of argumentation. In one of the chapters of her groundbreaking book, The Social Meaning of Money , Zelizer follows how money went through a process of “gifting”: how in the beginning of the twentieth century money gifts gradually became acceptable in various...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 1998
.... The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonomy . Abraham and Torok . Derrida Jacques . The Gift of Death . Trans. Wills David . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1995 . Derrida Jacques . Glas . Trans. Leavey John P. Jr. and Rand Richard . Lincoln : U of Nebraska P...
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differences (2003) 14 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2003
... existence is merely given to us as a world of appearances within spatiotemporal coordinates. We appre- hend the world passively through our intuition, which is not active, but sensible and receptive. We are not gifted...
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differences (2005) 16 (3): 102–113.
Published: 01 December 2005
... . gayatri chakravorty spivak Notes toward a Tribute to Jacques Derrida The public part of mourning is a not unimportant step in the releasing of the ghost, in us. We cannot know the gift, least of all a gift coming from a named...
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differences (1998) 10 (3): 185–186.
Published: 01 November 1998
... Scudéry .” 10 . 3 : 82 – 118 . Shepherdson Charles . “ The Gift of Love and the Debt of Desire .” 10 . 1 : 30 – 74 . Simpson Caroline Chung . “ ‘Out of an obscure place’: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s .” 10 . 3 : 47 – 81 . Smith Stephanie...