A small history of the body (contribution to a research project: Time and the body)

Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 31-43

  Hodge, Joanna ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249531582     PISSN: 0969725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09697259808571997     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. For reflections on the significance of DNA see Steve Jones, The Language of Genes: Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future (London: Harper Collins, 1993);
2. and Francois Jacob, The Logic of Living Systems (London: Allen Lane, 1974).
3. Jacques Derrida: Of Grammatology (Paris: Minuit, 1967), trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976).
4. Also relevant are the papers collected in Writing and Difference (1967)
5. and in Margins of Philosophy (1972).
6. See Moira Gatens, Women and Philosophy (Oxford: Polity, 1992)
7. and Imaginary Bodies (London: Routledge, 1995).
8. Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (London: Routledge, 1990)
9. and Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism (Indiana: Indiana UP, 1994).
10. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), The Visible and the Invisible, ed. Claude Lefort (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), trans. Alphonso Lingis (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1968).
11. See Luce Irigaray: Speculum of the Other Woman (Paris: Minuit, 1974), trans. Gillian G. Gill (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP, 1985);
12. This Sex Which Is Not One (Paris: Minuit, 1978), trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca NY: Cornell UP);
13. and An Ethics of Sexual Difference (Paris: Minuit 1984), trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (London: Athlone, 1993).
14. For an excellent study of Irigaray, see Tina Chanter, The Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers (London: Routledge, I995)
15. For Helene Cixous, see Reading with Clarice Lispector (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)
16. Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Uspector, and Tsvetayeva (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
17. both translated and edited by Verena Andermatt Conley; and the study by Morag Shiach, Helene Cixous: A Politics of Writing (London: Routledge, 1991).
18. Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure. The History of Sexuality Volume 2, trans. Robert Hurley (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986) 7.
19. The argument for this is presented as a corollary of the more extended arguments being explored in relation to the possibility of philosophy in Being and Time (1927) and in more focused form in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1928). For a discussion of some of the implications see Joanna Hodge, Heidegger and Ethics (London: Routledge, 1995), especially chapter one.
20. See Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
21. Jacques Derrida discusses the significance of the Hegelian distinction between the operations of Erinnerung, which provide complete, completable memory, and of Gedaechtnis, in which there is only partial retrieval, as a result of interruptions introduced in the processes of registering memory, in "The Arts of Memoires," the central section of his eulogy for Paul de Man, Memo/res: For Paul de Man, 1986, 1989 (New York: Columbia UP, second ed. 1989) 65.
22. Christopher Johnson in his perceptive study, System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993), mobilises Michel Serres to point out that From the perspective of the history and philosophy of science, Serres defines the new paradigm as "neo-Leibnizian," by which he means that the concept of the code and the basic operations of permutation and combination have come to constitute the predominant methodology across the spectrum of exact and human sciences.
23. (2-3) This fascinating study traces how Derrida works and reworks a series of interconnections between textual dissemination and physiological generations, in a number of texts, suggestively starting out from Anthony Wilden's brief remarks concerning the occurrence of the notion of cybernetics in Derrida's text in his study of Lacan, Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis: Jacques Lacan (Baltimore MA: Johns Hopkins UP, 1968) 302.
24. See Jacques Derrida, "The Law of Genre" (1979) and "Before the Law" (1982), trans. Avital Ronell, Derrida: Acts of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge (London: Routledge, 1992) 221-52, 181- 220.
25. A revised version of "The Law of Genre" appears in Derrida, Parages (Paris: Galilee, 1986) 249-87;
26. and an earlier version of "Before the Law" appears in Derrida et al., La faculte de juger (Paris: Minuit, 1985) 87-139.
27. See Cixous, "Writing and the Law," Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Uspector, and Tsvetayeva 1-27.
28. Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (London: Cape, 1970) 69-82;
29. also in Benjamin, Gesammeke Schriften, Bd. 4, I, Kleine Prosa (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1972) 9-21.
30. See Derrida, "Des Tours de Babel," trans. Joseph F. Graham, Difference in Translation, ed. Joseph F. Graham (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1985) 165-248.