TY - JOUR
T1 - Derrida in Prague
T2 - Poussin, Adami, Stoppard and the innocence of deconstruction
AU - MCQUILLAN, MARTIN
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Edinburgh University Press
PY - 2017/11/30
Y1 - 2017/11/30
N2 - This paper attends to the curious affair of Jacques Derrida in Prague when he was arrested by the Czechoslovakian police on charges of drug smuggling. It reads two images by Valerio Adami and Nicolas Poussin, entitled, ‘The Massacre of the Innocents’, Tom Stoppard's play, Professional Foul about dissident philosophers in Prague, and a section from Ken McMullen's film Ghost Dance on Kafka. It turns around the question of what ‘innocence’ might mean in politics and reading.
AB - This paper attends to the curious affair of Jacques Derrida in Prague when he was arrested by the Czechoslovakian police on charges of drug smuggling. It reads two images by Valerio Adami and Nicolas Poussin, entitled, ‘The Massacre of the Innocents’, Tom Stoppard's play, Professional Foul about dissident philosophers in Prague, and a section from Ken McMullen's film Ghost Dance on Kafka. It turns around the question of what ‘innocence’ might mean in politics and reading.
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U2 - 10.3366/drt.2017.0156
DO - 10.3366/drt.2017.0156
M3 - Article (journal)
SN - 1754-8500
VL - 10
SP - 197
EP - 215
JO - Derrida Today
JF - Derrida Today
IS - 2
ER -