Merleau-Ponty and Derrida articulate two overlapping but divergent ways of thinking about differentiation, ecart and difference. This volume represents the viewpoints of fifteen leading North American scholars working in the fields of Continental philosophy, phenomenology, and postmodernism. These scholars, in essays written expressly for this volume, address the matrix of thought underlying contemporary responses to postmodernsim at large and deconstructionism in particular: identity and difference, community and alterity, self and other, metaphysics and its closure, language and its beyond, signification and referentiality.
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In spite of her identity as a Polish Jew, Communist activist Luxemburg (1871–1919) used her singular personality to immerse herself in party organization even as she shaped the movement's message through her editing, orating, and tireless campaigning. A cofounder of the German Communist Party, Luxemburg expressed unfailing passion in her letters (supplemented here by substantial footnotes), revealing her personal sacrifices even while chastising colleagues who failed her. Among these were lovers addressed in early naïve, love-torn letters. Later, lengthy missives expressed well-considered economic and political stances, referring to her published works, and her censored letters, sent while imprisoned for agitation against WWI and insulting the Prussian king, exhibit delicacy when discussing the safe subjects of botany, wild birds, and her beloved cat, Mimi. Using her extensive information network two decades before WWII, Luxemburg accurately predicted the "pogroms against Jews in Germany." This volume gives personal insight into a remarkable (and controversial) woman, who was assassinated at age 47, and adds meaningful context to any study of early Western socialism. (Mar.)
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(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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[Rosa Luxemburg's] letters, with all their exquisite details, read as well as any novel ... Personal or political [they] are beautiful, powerful, and succinct. (Idiom )
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg includes everything from Luxemberg s youthful mash notes to her theoretical arguments, as well as her uncanny prediction of 'pogroms against Jews in Germany.' (Tablet )
Wonderful ... The self-portrait in these pages is that of a professional revolutionary whose vocation is, if you'll pardon the expression, spiritual. Reading ... this book, I could not help falling in love with you, dear Rosa. (Scott McLemee - Bookforum )
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is a ... kind of memorial, a kind of sliver of one woman s life bound together in one place ... Rosa Luxemburg comes alive in these pages ... if you love or admire or are just fascinated by [her], then you ve no excuse not to buy this excellent book. (PopMatters )
Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals. (John Berger )
Verso is once again to be congratulated for this publishing initiative, in an excellent translation by George Shriver ... [The letters] give a unique insight into her character, her deep humanity as well as her passionate commitment to the struggle for socialism. (Morning Star )
George Shriver's new translation of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the most comprehensive collection of her correspondence yet to appear in English. It transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist.... reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. (Sheila Rowbotham - The Guardian )
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg come as near as anything to the way this extraordinary woman talked with loved ones and friend ... a wonderfully compelling record, both poignant and timely. (The Observer )
Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times. (Eduardo Galeano )
This English-language edition of selected letters of Polish-born Marxist thinker and founder of the German Communist Party, Luxemburg, who was assassinated in 1919, is the most comprehensive published in English, with over two-thirds of the letters translated here for the first time. (Library Journal )
A welcome contribution to a renewed interest in this key figure of the Marxist tradition. (Socialist Review )
Useful and exciting. (New York Observer )
Luxemburg expressed unfailing passion in her letters ... This volume gives personal insight into a remarkable (and controversial) woman and adds meaningful context to any study of early Western socialism. (Publishers Weekly )
Paced almost like a novel, the 28 years covered by this collection pass by almost too quickly. (Joel Schalit - Jewish Daily Forward )
Fascinating ... these passionate letters, which commemorate the 140th anniversary of Luxemburg s birth, show the living, breathing and loving woman behind the legend of 'Red Rosa.' --(Irene Gam(Irene Gammel - Toronto Globe & Mail ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg includes everything from Luxemberg s youthful mash notes to her theoretical arguments, as well as her uncanny prediction of 'pogroms against Jews in Germany.' (Tablet )
Wonderful ... The self-portrait in these pages is that of a professional revolutionary whose vocation is, if you'll pardon the expression, spiritual. Reading ... this book, I could not help falling in love with you, dear Rosa. (Scott McLemee - Bookforum )
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is a ... kind of memorial, a kind of sliver of one woman s life bound together in one place ... Rosa Luxemburg comes alive in these pages ... if you love or admire or are just fascinated by [her], then you ve no excuse not to buy this excellent book. (PopMatters )
Intrepid, incorruptible, passionate and gentle. Imagine as you read between the lines of what she wrote the expression of her eyes. She loved workers and birds. She danced with a limp. Everything about her fascinates and rings true. One of the immortals. (John Berger )
Verso is once again to be congratulated for this publishing initiative, in an excellent translation by George Shriver ... [The letters] give a unique insight into her character, her deep humanity as well as her passionate commitment to the struggle for socialism. (Morning Star )
George Shriver's new translation of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the most comprehensive collection of her correspondence yet to appear in English. It transports us directly into the private world of a woman who has never lost her inspirational power as an original thinker and courageous activist.... reveals that the woman behind the mythic figure was also a compassionate, teasing, witty human being. (Sheila Rowbotham - The Guardian )
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg come as near as anything to the way this extraordinary woman talked with loved ones and friend ... a wonderfully compelling record, both poignant and timely. (The Observer )
Rosa goes on being our source of fresh water in thirsty times. (Eduardo Galeano )
This English-language edition of selected letters of Polish-born Marxist thinker and founder of the German Communist Party, Luxemburg, who was assassinated in 1919, is the most comprehensive published in English, with over two-thirds of the letters translated here for the first time. (Library Journal )
A welcome contribution to a renewed interest in this key figure of the Marxist tradition. (Socialist Review )
Useful and exciting. (New York Observer )
Luxemburg expressed unfailing passion in her letters ... This volume gives personal insight into a remarkable (and controversial) woman and adds meaningful context to any study of early Western socialism. (Publishers Weekly )
Paced almost like a novel, the 28 years covered by this collection pass by almost too quickly. (Joel Schalit - Jewish Daily Forward )
Fascinating ... these passionate letters, which commemorate the 140th anniversary of Luxemburg s birth, show the living, breathing and loving woman behind the legend of 'Red Rosa.' --(Irene Gam(Irene Gammel - Toronto Globe & Mail ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Comparing and contrasting "écart" and "différence",
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This review is from: Ecart & Differance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing (Paperback)
Martin Dillon and noted contributors (Busch, Ferris, Olkowski, Burke, Lawlor, Madison, Margolis, Gallagher, O'Connor, Mazis, Vallier, Silverman, Flynn, Wurzer) have provided us here with a powerful set of studies aimed at comparing and contrasting two key contemporary "figures" of difference, namely "écart" proposed by Merleau Ponty, and "différence" proposed by Derrida.In particular, the collection highlights those issues and questions that both Merleau Ponty and Derrida seem to share along the lines of a functional isomorphism between the two notions since both 'designate a non-coincidence of thought with itself', in addition to making a parallel 'divergence of thought with its object' (p.4). However, functional isomorphism does not imply content isomorphism: if Merleau Ponty and Derrida do seem to be strolling along some same road, there is a departure, at times singular, that the collection equally discusses. Notably, if "écart" seeks to signify distance and decentering within perceptual presence by placing emphasis on the visibility-invisibility play in seeing ... on the 'pre-linguistic' (p. 13), "différence" wants to deny such perceptual presence through temporization and deferral by placing emphasis on (arche)-writing. Such is the problematic of language and the pre-linguistic "flesh" which are discussed in the first section of the collection. The second section presents developments around the notions of "écart" and "différence" (in addition to "chiasma", "flesh", "identity", "being" to name but a few) in relation with time, literature, art, politics and economics. Overall, this collection is a unique in that it is the only maybe opportunity that brings close two notions of difference that are not always contrasted and compared. For just this reason, this text is a must - it does, however, require some familiarity with Derrida and Merleau Ponty or with the concerns of the philosophy of difference.
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