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Sean Gaston is Research Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is Emeritus Reader in English at Brunel University London. His previous publications include Derrida and Disinterest (2005), The Impossible Mourning of Derrida (2006), Starting with Derrida (2007) and Derrida, Literature and War (2009).
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Problem of History
Part One: A Philosophy of History
1. History and Historicism
2. History and Historicity
3. History and Deconstruction
Part Two: A Deconstructive Historiography
4. History, Context, Mi-lieu
5. A History of Contexts
6. History, Memory, and Memoir
7. The Problem of Historical Memory
8. History, Event, and Narrative
9. A Witness of a Witness
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
In this powerful and provocative book, Sean Gaston combs through Jacques Derrida’s works from the 1960s to the 90s with fidelity and care to argue that Derrida’s oeuvre should in fact be seen as a philosophy of history that provides a deconstructive historiography. In doing so, Gaston articulates a new kind of philosophy of history that takes up the problems of context, memory, and narrative in striking and original ways.
— Ethan Kleinberg, Professor of History and Letters, Wesleyan University