文档介绍:Philosophy, Art, AND THE SPECTERS OF Jacques Derrida Philosophy, Art, AND THE SPECTERS OF Jacques Derrida Gray Kochhar-Lindgren Copyright 2011 Gray Kochhar-Lindgren All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior permission of the publisher. Requests for permission should be directed to: permissions@, or mailed to: Cambria Press 20 Northpointe Parkway, Suite 188 Amherst, NY 14228 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kochhar-Lindgren, Gray. Philosophy, art, and the specters of Jacques Derrida / by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60497-788-2 (alk. paper) 1. Derrida, Jacques. 2. Phenomenology. 3. Art criticism. I. Title. 2011 194—dc23 2011040605 For Rick Dolphijn, Mark Freed, Mike Gillespie, and Cyrus Stearns —who pany philosophy— Whoever seizes the greatest unreality will shape the greatest reality. —Hugo von Hofmannsthal T ABLE OF C ONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Exposures 1 Chapter 1: The Aesthetics of Spectrality 5 The Train Arriving at La Ciotat 5 Perception, Philosophy, Art 8 The Haunting of the House of Reason 20 Chapter 2: Ghosting Phenomenology 43 Reading Clues 43 Lighting the Ground 56 Chiaroscuro 64 The Night of the Living Dead 72 Chapter 3: The Phantasm of Literature 79 The Apparition of History 79 The TelePhonics of the Text 102 Chapter 4: Haunted Screens 131 Dissolving Shots 131 Biomorph 142 Nocturnal Hallucinations 159 Flat Surfaces 166 Chapter 5: Blast Wind 177 Shadow Writing 177 Exposure Toward Futurity 191 Works Cited 205 Index 221 A CKNOWLEDGMENTS Earlier versions of sections of the text have appeared in Monatshefte , Quadrant , Hypermedia Joyce Studies , Image & Narrative , Pedagogy ,