The World after the End of the World by Kas Saghafi - 9781438478203

State University of New York Press

The World after the End of the WorldA Spectro-Poetics\nAuthor(s): Kas Saghafi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438478203, 978-1438478203\nSynopsis\nExamines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.\n\nIn this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of \""the end the world\"" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, the term salut, which in French means at once greeting and salvation. An underlying concern of The World after the End of the World is whether a discourse on salut (saving, being saved, and salvation) can be dissociated from discourse on religion. Saghafi compares Derrida's thought along these lines with similar concerns of Jean-L.