Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida - Veils
Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida - Veils Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. Her…
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Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida - Veils
Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. Her literary inventiveness mines the coincidence in French between the two verbs savoir (to know) and voir (to see). "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia, an experience that ends with the unexpected turn of grieving for what is lost.
Veils suspends sexual difference between two homonyms: la voile (sail) and le Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" complexly muses on a host of autobiographical, philosophical, and religious motifs--including his varied responses to "Savoir." The two texts are accompanied by six beautiful and evocative drawings that play on the theme of drapery over portions of the body.
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