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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.
Trade Review"This book is not for you-if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem." -- -Catherine Keller George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Derrida and the New Materialism Chapter One: Reading Derrida Reading Religion Chapter Two: Surviving Christianity Chapter Three: Political Theology Without Sovereignty Chapter Four: Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram: Derrida Reads Celan Chapter Five: Derrida, Lacan and OOO: Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Chapter Six: Radical Theology and the Event: Caputo's Derridean Gospel Chapter Seven: Deconstructive Plasticity: Malabou's Biological Materialism Chapter Eight: Quantum Derrida: Barad's Hauntological Materialism Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers-A Love Letter
