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Sunday Salon: Josipovici’s Creative Negation
by Jacob Russell on December 16, 2007
Originally posted at: Jacob Russell's Barking Dog
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It’s been a long time since I’ve had a Sunday at leisure. For three weeks running it was bronchitis and tooth trauma (at least that’s over); then a broken RSS feed. This time, it’s moving day tomorrow. All but a few books are packed in boxes. Much cleaning to do and other final preparations, but before I pack up the computer, I want to offer a few thoughts on Josipovici. I’ve just finished The Singer on the Shore. This is book by a writer, something to keep in mind when you read these essays. How and what he reads, those ideas and experiences that nourish or impede his work. He is not, and doesn’t claim to be a philosopher, he doesn’t draw on ideas from psychoanalysis , or probe too deeply into critical theory. You won’t find Zizekian pyrotechnics, or elaborate linguistic puzzles on the order of Derida or Lacan, or the condensation and ellipses of Blanchot; if that’s what you expect when you come to these essays, you will be disappointed. But you shouldn’t be. He is none of these things, but that is not his weakness, but his strength.
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