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1. A play on Walter Benjamin's title "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 217-51;
2. "Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit," in Illuminationen, ed. Siegfried Unseld (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1969), 148-84. Benjamin did not live to see the appearance of the personal computer connected to the Internet, but his essay is one of the first great reflections on the epochal changes in individual and social life being brought about by new communications technologies.
3. Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida, trans. Geoffrey Bennington (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 1;
4. Jacques Derrida (Paris: Seuil, 1991), 3.
5. Marcel Proust, "Journées de pélerinage" ("Days of Pilgrimage"), in Mé-langes, in Contre Sainte-Beuve: Précédé de pastiches et mélanges, et suivi de essais et articles, ed. Pierre Clarac and Yves Sandre (Paris: Gallimard, 1971), 76.
6. "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," in Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems (New York: Vintage, 1990), 389.
7. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2d ed., ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 154.
8. Maurice Blanchot, "Literature and the Right to Death," in The Gaze of Orpheus, trans. Lydia Davis (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1981), 21-62;
9. "Littérature et le droit à la mort," in La part du feu (Paris: Gallimard, 1949), 291-331.
10. E. M. Forster, Howards End (New York: Vintage, 1989), 30-31. The passage is cited in Chapter 6, n. 28, of this book.
11. Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty," l. 7, Poems, 3d ed., ed. W. H. Gardner (New York: Oxford University Press. 1948), 74. chapter 2. who or what decides, for derrida.
12. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2d ed., ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 10, and see the preceding sentences.
13. Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn (London: Oxford University Press, 1962), 2:268.
14. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, vols. 3-4 of The Novels and Tales, 26 vols., rpt. of the New York Edition (Fairfield, N. J.: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971), 3:318.
15. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 154.
16. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, in Alice in Wonderland, ed. Donald J. Gray (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), 150.
17. See my discussion of James's novel in "The Story of a Kiss: Isabel's Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady," in Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), 30-83. chapter 3. derrida's destinerrance.
18. John P. Leavey, Jr., "Destinerrance: The Apotropocalyptics of Translation," in Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida, ed. John Sallis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 33-43. Leavey's essay is the best discussion I know of Derrida's destinerrance. I am grateful for his help and for help from JulianWolfreys in tracking down Derrida's uses of the word or, sometimes, the figurative idea without the word.
19. Derrida's paraphrase in Aporias of Diderot's comment on Seneca's "De brevitate vitae" (Ae, 2; Af, 17). It appears elsewhere in Derrida's writing, for example, in the last seminars, "The Beast and the Sovereign (Two)." The last example is cited in Chapter 4 of this book.
20. Jacques Lacan, "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,"' Yale French Studies 48 (1972): 72;
21. Écrits (Paris: Seuil, 1966), 41.
22. J. Hillis Miller, "Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the 'Dislocation of Souls,"' in Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, ed. Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), 135-36.
23. Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, ed. W. Haas, trans. T. and J. Stern (New York: Schocken, 1954), 299;
24. Briefe an Milena, ed. W. Haas (New York: Schocken, 1952), 259-60.
25. Maurice Blanchot, De Kafka à Kafka (Paris: Gallimard, 1981), 155-70.
26. Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections, trans. Willa and Edwin Muir (New York: Schocken, 1946), 283; for the German, see http://www.kafka.org/index.php?aphorismen.
27. See Sigmund Freud, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1955), 18:14-15.
28. "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," in Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems (New York: Vintage, 1990), 406.
29. From a speech by "Earth" in Prometheus Unbound: "Ere Babylon was dust,/The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child,/Met his own image walking in the garden," I:191-93
30. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. Thomas Hutchinson and G. M. Matthews (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), 212.
31. Thomas Hardy, "Old Furniture," ll. 11-14
32. Hardy, The Complete Poems, ed. James Gibson (New York: Macmillan, 1978), 486.
33. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Death," ll. 1-2, in Shelley, Poetical Works, ed. Thomas Hutchinson and G. M. Matthews (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), 622.
34. Cleanth Brooks and Robert PennWarren, in Understanding Poetry (New York: Henry Holt, 1945), 219-20.
35. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, introd. VirginiaWoolf (New York: Modern Library, 2001), 142ff. This is the edition Derrida used.
36. Georges Poulet, Études sur le temps humain (Paris: Plon, 1962).
37. From a speech by Earth in Prometheus Unbound: "Ere Babylon wasdust/The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child,/Met his own image walking inthe garden" (1:191-93, in Shelley, Poetical Works, 212).
38. Ll. 3-4 of John Donne's "Holy Sonnets, I," in Donne, Poems of JohnDonne, ed. E. K. Chambers, 1 (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1896), 157. I have retained the capitalization Derrida uses, though it does not exactly correspondto the Chambers text. See also, for an online version: http://www .luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/holysonnet1.php/
39. See also Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 267;
40. Die Grundbegriffe derMetaphysik: Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983), 388.
41. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and EdwardRobinson (London: SCM Press Ltd, 1962), 154-55;
42. Sein und Zeit (Tü-bingen: Max Niemeyer, 1967), 118.
43. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, ed. Donald J. Gray (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972), 7.
44. Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night," The Collected Poems (New York: New Directions, 1953), 128.
45. For a commentary on "The Time of a Thesis," see my "Derrida and Literature," in Jacques Derrida and the Humanities, ed. Tom Cohen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 58-81.
46. See the fascinating essays on the Estonia Internet event by Joshua Davis, John Robb, and Ralph Peters, "Web War One," Wired (September 2007), 162-69, 182, 184.
47. De Man's essay on Derrida is reprinted in Paul de Man, Blindness and Insight, 2d ed., introd. Wlad Godzich (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 102-41. chapter 6. derrida enisled
48. Walter Benjamin, "On Language as Such and on the Language of Man," in Selected Writings, vol. 1, 1913-1926, ed. Marcus Bullock and MichaelW. Jennings (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 64.
49. Raymond Williams, "Enclosures, Commons and Communities" and "Knowable Communities," in The Country and the City (1973; New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1975), 96-107; 165-81;
50. Raymond Williams, "Community," in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, rev. ed. (1983; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 75-76.
51. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology, ed. Roy Pascal (New York: International Publishers, 1969), 74. Scholars think the words areprobably Marx's.
52. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991);
53. La communauté désoeuvrée (Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1986);
54. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, trans. RobertD. Richardson and Anne E. O'Byrne (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000);
55. Être singulier pluriel (Paris: Galilée, 1996);
56. Georges Bataille, L'Apprenti Sorcier du cercle communiste démocratique à Acéphale: Textes, lettres etdocuments (1932-1939), ed. Marina Galletti, notes trans. Natália Vital (Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 1999);
57. Maurice Blanchot, The Inavowable Community, trans. Pierre Joris (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1988);
58. La communauté inavouable (Paris: Minuit, 1983);
59. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993);
60. La comunità che viene (Turin: Einaudi, 1990);
61. Alphonso Lingis, The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 1994). See later notes for Heidegger, Levinas, and Lacanreferences.
62. Edmund Husserl, "Fifth Meditation: Uncovering the Sphere of TranscendentalBeing as Monadological Intersubjectivity," in Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology, trans. Dorion Cairns (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960), 89-151. See esp. paragraph 50, "The mediate intentionality ofexperiencing someone else, as 'appresentation' (analogical apperception)" (108-11).
63. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and EdwardRobinson (London: SCM Press, 1962), 154-55;
64. Sein und Zeit (Tü bingen: Max Niemeyer, 1967), 118. Page numbers will appear in the text hereafter.
65. Williams, The Country and the City, 105.
66. Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 207;
67. Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983), 304.
68. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968), 3e.
69. In Paul de Man, The Resistance to Theory, Foreword by Wlad Godzich (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 73-105;
70. Walter Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," trans. Harry Zohn, in Selected Writings, vol. 1, 253-63;
71. "Die Aufgabe desÜ bersetzers," in Illuminationen (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1969), 56-69.
72. Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," De Man's translation, in The Resistance to Theory, 79, Illuminationen, 69.
73. De Man, The Resistance to Theory, 79-80.
74. Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," 259; 64.
75. Benjamin, "The Task of the Translator," 262; 69.
76. Judith Butler, in recent discussion of Levinas, especially his Otherwisethan Being, or Beyond Essence, in Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: FordhamUniversity Press, 2005), 84-101, stresses what is coercive, even "persecutory," in Levinas's thinking about the demands the other makes on me. The "I" is created in the responsibility forced on me by the other. "A formation inpassivity, then," writes Butler, "constitutes the prehistory of the subject, instatingan ego as object, acted on by others, prior to any possibility of its ownacting. This scene is persecutory because it is unwilled and unchosen" (87).
77. Emmanuel Levinas, "Is Ontology Fundamental?" in Entre Nous: OnThinking-of-the-Other, trans. Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 6;
78. "L'ontologie estelle fondamental?" in Entre nous: Essais sur le penser-à-l'autre (Paris: Grasset, 1991), 17.
79. Levinas, Entre Nous, 6; 17.
80. Henry James, ''The Aspern Papers,'' in The Novels and Tales, 26 vols., a reprint of the New York Edition (Fairfield, N.J.: Augustus M. Kelley, 1971-79), 12:42.
81. Levinas, Entre Nous, 7; 19.
82. Martin Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. Ralph Manheim (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1959), 50;
83. Einführung in die Metaphysik (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1966), 38.
84. Martin Heidegger, Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry, trans. Keith Hoeller (New York: Humanity Books, 2000), 48;
85. Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung, ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981), 30.
86. Jennifer Bajorek, ''The Offices of Homeland Security, or Hölderlin's Terrorism,'' Critical Inquiry 31, no. 4 (Summer 2005): 874-902.
87. The original French version, ''Les exégèses de Hölderlin par Martin Heidegger,'' was published in Critique, nos. 100-1 (September-October 1955): 800-19.
88. Martin Heidegger, Hölderlin's Hymn ''The Ister,'' trans. William Mc- Neill and Julia Davis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966);
89. Hölderlins Hymne ''Der Ister'' (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984).
90. Jacques Lacan, ''Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,' '' trans. Jeffrey Mehlman, Yale French Studies 48 (1972), 44;É crits (Paris: Seuil, 1966), 15.
91. W. J. T. Mitchell, ''Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity,'' in special issue ''The Late Derrida,'' ed. W. J. T. Mitchell and Arnold I. Davidson, Critical Inquiry 33, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 277-90, esp. 282.
92. Kir Kuiken, in a superb, unpublished reading of Shelley's Defense of Poetry, has taught me, the name for this figure is ''metalepsis.'' Kuiken cites Chris Baldick, in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 152:
93. For a recent lucid description of what has happened, with focus on Citigroup, see Thomas Friedman, ''All Fall Down,'' New York Times, November 26, 2008 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/opinion/26friedman .html?th&emc =th)
94. www.wikipedia.org/.
95. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performativity.
96. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance studies.
97. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith Butler.
98. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 2006), 3. Subsequent citations are given parenthetically by page number in the text.
99. For a collection of essays primarily on de Man's concepts of materiality, see Tom Cohen, Barbara Cohen, J. Hillis Miller, and AndrzejWarminski, eds., Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
100. Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 9-11.
101. For a discussion of the latter, see my ''The Aftermath of Victorian Humanism: Oscar in The Tragic Muse,'' Renaissance Humanism-Modern Humanisms( s): Festszchrift for Claus Uhlig, ed. Walter Göbel and Bianca Ross (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2001), 231-39;
102. ''Oscar in The Tragic Muse,'' in The Importance of Being Misunderstood, ed. Giovanna Franci and Giovanna Silvani (Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2003), 49-61
103. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, chap. 6, in Alice in Wonderland, ed. Donald J. Gray (New York: Norton, 1971), 163.
104. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 2d ed., ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 12.
105. Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham UniversityPress, 2005).
106. An earlier version of this discussion of Daniel Deronda was given as alecture in Bergen, Norway, at a workshop entitled "Text, Action, Space," sponsored by Lars Saetre, on June 25-26, 2007.
107. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, ed. Barbara Hardy (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1986), 79. Further citations are given parenthetically bypage number from this edition.
108. Cynthia Chase, "The Decomposition of the Elephants: Double-ReadingDaniel Deronda," in Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the RomanticTradition (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 157-74. Page numbers from this essay are indicated parenthetically in the text.
109. Steven Marcus, Representations: Essays on Literature and Society (NewYork: Random, 1976), 212, note.
110. As Chase observes (224), Mary Wilson Carpenter, in "The Apocalypse of the Old Testament: Daniel Deronda and theInterpretation of Interpretation," PMLA 99 (January 1984): 56-71, arguesthat "the plot [of Daniel Deronda] is in fact richly informed by Eliot's use ofcontemporary theological interpretation of the Feast of the Circumcision." Deronda's encounter with Gwendolen to urge her to penitence takes place onNew Year's Day, the Feast of the Circumcision. The circumcision in questionis, of course, that of the infant Jesus. Victorian Protestant theologians readthat event as inaugurating the union of the two "churches," Judaic andChristian.
111. Paul de Man, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979).
112. For a full discussion of Paul de Man's theory of speech acts, see chapter 3 of my Speech Acts in Literature (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001).
113. Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, ed. Robert L. Patten (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1972), 562.
114. Hélene Cixous, Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, trans. Beverley Bie Brahic (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004);
115. Portrait deJacques Derrida en Jeune Saint Juif (Paris: Galilée, 2001).
116. Gérard Bensussan's fine essay "The Last, The Remnant... (Derridaand Rosenzweig)" ("Le dernier, le reste... [Derrida et Rosenzweig]"), whichcomes just after Derrida's "Abraham, the Other" in Judeities, makes just thisconnection.
117. See Judeities: Questions for Jacques Derrida, ed. Bettina Bergo, JosephCohen, and Raphael Zagury-Orly, trans. Bettina Bergo and Michael B. Smith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), 36-51;
118. Judéités: Questionspour Jacques Derrida, ed. Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly (Paris: Galilee, 2003), 43-58.
119. Franz Kafka, "Abraham," trans. Clement Greenberg, in Parables andParadoxes, bilingual ed. (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 44, 45.
120. Simon Morgan Wortham, Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and theQuestion of the University (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006).
121. Martin Heidegger, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. William McNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995);
122. Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983).
123. Matthew Arnold, Friendship's Garland, in The Complete Prose Works ofMatthew Arnold, vol. 5, Culture and Anarchy, with Friendship's Garland and SomeLiterary Essays, ed. R. H. Super (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1965), 42. The context of Arminius's adjuration explains what he means byGeist (37-42). Here is a bit of what he says: "We North-Germans have workedfor 'Geist' in our way, by loving knowledge, by having the best-educated middleand lower class in the world.... Where have you [English] got it?-got itas a force, I mean, and not only in a few scattered individuals. Your commonpeople is barbarous; in your middle class 'Ungeist' is rampant; and as for youraristocracy, you know 'Geist' is forbidden by nature to flourish in an aristocracy" (41).
124. J. Hillis Miller, "The Poetics of Cyberspace: TwoWays to Get a Life," in Contemporary Poetics, ed. Louis Armand (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern UniversityPress, 2007), 256-78.
125. Part of this paper, in a somewhat different form, was published in a special issue on automobility of The Sociological Review (2006): 193-207.
126. "[M]y attempt to marry by saying 'I will' is abortive if the woman says 'I will not' " (J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, ed. J. O. Urmson andMarina Sbisa, 2d ed. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980], 37).
127. See J. Hillis Miller, The Practice of Public Prayer (New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1934). This J. Hillis Miller is the present author's father.
128. http://www.english.udel.edu/dean/cangrand.html. This gives Dante's Latin, with and English translation by James Marchand. All following quotationsfrom this source will be taken from this site.
129. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Major (New York: Vintage, 1982), 3:180-86;
130. A la recherche du temps perdu, ed. Jean-Yves Tadié, Antoine Campagnon, andPierre-Edmond Robert (Paris: Gallimard, 1988-89), 3:687-93.
131. Plato, Phaedo, trans. Harold North Fowler (Cambridge: Harvard UniversityPress, 1966), 211. "Make music" translates mousikon poiei" (210).
132. The page number refers to the English translation David Wills used: Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, and Repetition, vol. 6 of Kierkegaard'sWritings, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983).
133. Franz Kafka, "A Little Fable," in The Great Wall of China: Stories andReflections, trans. Willa and Edwin Muir (New York: Schocken, 1946), 260.
134. Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The $10 Trillion Hangover: Paying the Price for Eight Years of Bush," Harper's 318, no. 1904 (January 2009): 31-35.
135. Double or triple tangents exist, but Derrida in his pervasive use of thetangent motif does not, so far as I remember, take explicit account of thatpossibility. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent:
136. For Peggy Kamuf's translation of the title, see Jacques Derrida, "Letoucher: Touch/To Touch Him," trans. Peggy Kamuf, in On theWork of Jean-Luc Nancy, ed. Peggy Kamuf, Paragraph 16, no. 2 (July 1993): 122-57.
137. Alfred Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam," XCV, 11. 33-40
138. The Poemsof Tennyson, ed. Christopher Ricks, 3 vols. (Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress, 1987), 2:413.
139. Jean-Luc Nancy, Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body, trans. SarahClift, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas (New York: Fordham UniversityPress, 2008), 31;
140. Noli me tangere: Essai sur la levée du corps (Paris: Bayard, 2003), 55.
141. James Thurber, "The Car We Had to Push," The Thurber Carnival (New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.), 182.
142. Thomas Hardy, The Life and Death of the Mayor of Casterbridge: A Storyof a Man of Character (New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d.), 32. (This is vol. 5 of the Anniversary Edition of The Writings of Thomas Hardy in Prose and Verse. It is a reprint of the originalWessex Edition, with the same texts andpagination.)
143. James Joyce, Ulysses (New York: Modern Library, 1934), 145.
144. See J. Hillis Miller, Literature as Conduct (New York: Fordham UniversityPress, 2005), 36-39.
145. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus, trans. SaulAnton (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008);
146. Le discours de la syncope: I. Logodaedalus (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1976).
147. See 36-38 in chap. 2, "The Story of a Kiss: Isabel's Decisions in ThePortrait of a Lady," in my Literature as Conduct.
148. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community, trans. Peter Conner, LisaGarbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney (Minneapolis: University ofMinnesota Press, 2001;
149. La communauté désoeuvrée (Paris: Christian Bourgois, 2004);
150. La communauté affrontée (Paris: Galilée, 2001).
151. Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardsonand Anne E. O'Byrne (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000);
152. Ê tresingulier pluriel (Paris: Galilée, 1996).
153. The Conflagration of Community, in progress.
154. Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus, trans. Richard A. Rand (New York: FordhamUniversity Press, 2008), 119, trans. modified;
155. Corpus, 2d ed. (Paris: Métailié, 2006), 104.
156. In Jean-Luc Nancy, A Finite Thinking, ed. Simon Sparks, trans. EdwardBullard, Jonathan Derbyshire, and Simon Sparks (Stanford, Calif.: StanfordUniversity Press, 2003), 25, 24 (Christine Irizarry has modified the translation);
157. Une pensée finie (Paris: Galilée, 1990), 45, 44.
158. Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology," in TheQuestion Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (NewYork: Harper & Row, 1977), 3-35;
159. "Die Frage nach der Technik," in Vorträgeund Aufsätze (Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1954), 13-44.
160. Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems (New York: Vintage, 1990), 10.
161. Nancy, Corpus, 121; 105.
162. Jean-Luc Nancy, Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity, trans. Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant, and Michael B. Smith (New York: FordhamUniversity Press, 2008;
163. La Déclosion: (Déconstruction du christianisme, 1) (Paris: Galilée, 2005).
164. Animals (all animals?), argues Heidegger in a lengthy development in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. WilliamMcNeill and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995);
165. Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt-Endlichkeit-Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1992), are weltarm (poor inworld), while man is weltbilden (world making). The stone is weltlos, worldless. In Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question, Derrida had already discussed Heidegger'sdistinctions at length.
166. Jason Smith, "The 'pure materiality of the Fact': Studies in Literatureand Politics (Husserl, Derrida, Nancy)," Ph.D. dissertation in ComparativeLiterature, University of California at Irvine, March 2006.
167. David Crystal, Language and the Internet (Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2001):
168. "It is possible to do calculus homework and have tinysexat the same time, if you type fast enough" (187).
169. Jean-Luc Nancy, Le poids d'une pensée (Sainte-Foy, Québec: Le Griffond'argile and Les Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1991);
170. the preface, "TheWeight of a Thought," is translated in The Gravity of Thought, trans. FrançoisRaffoul and Gregory Recco (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1997), 75-84.
171. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things withWords, ed. J. O. Urmson and MarinaSbisà, 2d ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 7.
172. Jean-Luc Nancy, "Psyche," trans. Emily McVarish, in Nancy, TheBirth to Presence, trans. Brian Holmes and others (Stanford, Calif.: StanfordUniversity Press, 1993), 393;
173. "Psyche," Première Livraisson, no. 16, 1978.
174. A Finite Thinking, 211-44; 147-95.
175. Maurice Blanchot, The Unavowable Community, trans. Pierre Joris (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1988);
176. La communauté inavouable (Paris: Minuit, 1983).
177. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Experience of Freedom, trans. Bridget McDonald (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993);
178. L'expérience de la liberté (Paris: Galilée, 1988).
179. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, 20.
180. Wallace Stevens, "Parochial Theme," in Collected Poems, 192.
181. See n. 11, above.
182. For recent commentary on Derrida's aspiration "to leave traces in thehistory of the French language" (LLF, 37), see Michael Naas, Derrida FromNow On (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), 3-6.
183. Franz Kafka, "The Hunter Gracchus [Two Fragments]," trans. StanleyCorngold, in Kafka's Selected Stories (New York: Norton, 2007), 109-13.
184. Nancy, Noli me tangere, 13; 25.
185. Here are Derrida's exact words, the words that apparently nettledNancy and seemed to him impertinent, so impertinent that he needed to believehe might persuade Derrida that Christianity is deconstructible and thathe, Nancy, has done that: "What Nancy announces today under the title of 'deconstruction of Christianity' will no doubt be the test of a dechristianizingof the world: no doubt as necessary, and fatal, as it is impossible. Almost bydefinition, one can only acknowledge this [qu'en prendre acte]. Only Christianitycan do this work, that is, undo it while doing it. Heidegger, too, Heideggeralready, has only succeeded in failing at this. Dechristianization will be aChristian victory" (OT, 54, trans. modified; LT, 68). Well, if the great Heideggercannot do it, it is unlikely that Nancy can do it either, "immense" ashis work is.
186. Nancy, Noli me tangere, 110, trans. modified; 25-26.
187. Franz Kafka, "Abraham," in Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes, bilingualed. (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 44, 45.
188. It is unclear whether the Midrash assumes these dialogues took placein reality or if this refers only to subtext or religious implication" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midrash). This makes Midrash sound like Derrida's proceduresin Le toucher, all right.
189. Mourning in Derrida has also, not surprisingly, received a good bit ofattention from Derrida scholars. See, for one admirable example, David Farrell Krell, The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in theThought of Jacques Derrida (University Park: Pennsylvania State UniversityPress, 2000).
190. See Sigmund Freud, "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917), trans. JoanRiviere, Collected Papers, 4 vols., ed. Joan Riviere (New York: Basic Books, 1959), 4:152-70
191. the revised translation in Sigmund Freud, The StandardEdition of the Complete Psychological Works, ed. James Strachey, with AnnaFreud, Alix Strachey, and Alan Tyson (London: Vintage; The Hogarth Pressand the Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2001), 14:243-58.
192. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, "Introjecter-incorporer: deuil oumélancolie," Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse 6 (Autumn 1972).
193. Jean-Luc Nancy, "Psyche," trans. Emily McVarish, in The Birth to Presence, trans. Brian Holmes and others (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UniversityPress, 1993), 393.
194. The French original first appeared, as "Psyche" (withoutaccent), in Première Livraisson, no. 16 (Paris: 1978).
195. Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Intruder" in Nancy, Corpus, trans. Richard Rand (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), 161-70;
196. L'intrus (Paris: Galilée, 2000).
197. Paul De Man, "Autobiography as De-Facement," in The Rhetoric of Romanticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), 81.
198. I am echoing here Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring and Fall: To aYoung Child," Poems, ed. W. H. Gardner and N. H. MacKenzie, 4th ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), 88-89. The first two lines are: "Márgare't, áre you grieving/Over Goldengrove unleaving?" The last line is "It isMargaret you mourn for." I retain Hopkins's diacritical marks in the first line. That Jacques Derrida's widow is named Marguerite is a dissonant accident. Ihope this will not forbid my using a variant of Hopkins's formulation to expressthe way mourning for something or someone outside oneself is reallymourning for oneself.
199. Franz Kafka, "The Hunter Gracchus [Two Fragments]," trans. StanleyCorngold, in Kafka's Selected Stories (New York: Norton, 2007), 111.