Clang

A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each otherJacques Derrida's famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F.

It innovatively forces The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting.Presented here in an entirely new translation as Clang--its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell--this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel's totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet's autobiographical, carceral erotics.