Abstract
Through an account of Derrida's late text on Paul de Man, ‘“Le Parjure”, Perhaps’, as a deliberately indiscrete confession, this essay considers the wider question of secrecy. It examines an unsuspected institutional history of deconstruction while suggesting a role for secrecy as the necessary condition of any critical reading. Along with De Man, the essay finally revisits the claim for ‘the radical secrecy of fiction’ as a basic structure of phenomena.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 140-157 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Theory, Culture & Society |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- biography
- De Man
- deconstruction
- Derrida
- perjury
- secrets
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