The Singular and the Other at the Limits of Language in the Apophatic Poetics of Edmond Jabes and Paul Celan

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Franke
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Edmond Jabes

Event, Death, and Poetry

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Harris B. Bechtol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Existential Concerns

Since Heidegger, at least, the theme of the event has become a focal point of current debate in continental philosophy. While scholars recognize the important contributions that Jacques Derrida has made to this debate, the significance of his considerations of the death of the other for his conception of the event has not yet been fully appreciated. This essay focuses on Derrida’s efforts to develop the notion of the event in reference to the death of the other through his engagement with Paul Celan in “Rams—Between Two Infinities, The Poem.” I argue that Derrida’s approach results in a three-fold contribution to the debate about the character of the event. Derrida turns to one of Celan’s poems in an effort to find the kind of speech that attests to the event in its singularity, and in this turn, he develops not only the structure of the event’s appearance in the death of the world when the other dies but also the ethical impetus that accompanies this event of the death of the other, namely a call for workless mourning. Through Derrida’s contribution, we learn that the concern for the event not only includes novel approaches to ontology but also attempts to weave together ontological, ethical, as well as existential concerns.

Uninterrupted Dialogue: Between Two Infinities, the Poem

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Derrida
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
The World ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer

With the attempt to express my feeling of admiration for Hans-Georg Gadamer an ageless melancholy mingles. This melancholy begins as of the friends' lifetime. A cogito of the farewell signs the breathing of their dialogues. One of the two will have been doomed, from the beginning, to carry alone both the dialogue that he must pursue beyond the interruption, and the memory of the first interruption. To carry the world of the other, to carry both the other and his world, the other and the world that have disappeared, in a world without world. That shall be one of the ways to let resound within ourselves the line of poetry by Paul Celan, " Die Welt ist fort, ich muss dich tragen ."

Being and the Other: On Paul Celan

1978 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Lévinas ◽  
Stephen Melville
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Paul Celan

Scholem, Derrida and the Literary Space

Derrida Today ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-155
Author(s):  
Michal Ben-Naftali
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
General Conditions

The essay examines Scholem's letter-confession on the Hebrew language addressed to Rosenzweig from two perspectives hitherto ignored in the ongoing interpretative consideration of this document: Scholem's repression of the literary space and his consequent exclusion of madness. The essay follows several threads in Derrida's own ‘internal’ reading of the letter, and leans on other Derridean writings such as The Monolingualism of the Other, Schibboleth: For Paul Celan and ‘Cogito and the History of Madness’ in order to suggest two distinct encounters between Derrida and Scholem: In the first encounter, Scholem reads Derrida and proves to be deconstructing his own notions of secular and profane Hebrew, while fighting in vain for his sanity by clinging to liturgical practices against the grain of an ongoing ‘actualization’, politicization or else fictionalization of the sacred language. In the second encounter, it is Derrida who reads Scholem. By transforming the particular conditions of possibility of Hebrew into general conditions of possibility of every language contaminated by a theological-political tension, Derrida contributes some important insights for contemporary Hebrew speakers.

Political Form in Paul Celan

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Beau Shaw ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Jewish Experience ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Political Form ◽  
The One

Paul Celan’s “Tenebrae” is a scandalous poem: it describes how “unity with the dying Jesus” (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s words) is achieved by means of the Jewish experience of the concentration camps. In this paper, I provide a new interpretation of “Tenebrae” that breaks from the two traditional ways in which the poem has been viewed—on the one hand, as a Christian poem that suggests that Jesus, insofar as he suffers just like Jewish concentration camp victims do, can provide “hope and redemption for the faithful” (Gadamer), and, on the other hand, as an ironic criticism of this Christian idea. Rather, I suggest that “Tenebrae” is a modification of Christianity: preserving Christian belief about Jesus’s death, it destroys that belief, and does so for the sake of the defense against Christian persecution. Finally, I suggest that this view reveals the peculiar poetic form of “Tenebrae”—what I call “political form.”

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