Explores Jacques Derrida’s thoughts on what it means to ‘remain’.
In a very late essay, “Remain(s)—The Master, or the Supplement of Infinity,” authored just two years before his death, Derrida conjoins two registers or fields of research, bringing together his early and his late work. In this complex and illuminating work, an analogy is drawn between two vastly different “cultures”—the Greco-European Onto-theo-phenomenology and the Vedic Brahmanic of India. Commenting on the work of eminent Indianist scholar Charles Malamoud, Derrida argues for the significance of the notion 0f the remainder (reste) as a key word in his deconstructive vocabulary. This volume is devoted to elucidating Derrida’s enigmatic essay and providing much-needed context.
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Pleshette DeArmitt and Kas Saghafi have given us a great gift with this book. Lucidly and patiently, they show us how to understand the central importance for Derridas thought of remaining, leavings, leftovers, and so on. This is writing that never flinches from the encounter with the impossible conditions of mourning what is gone and all that leaves. -- Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California Remains makes a moving, rich and significant contribution to Derrida Studies by providing an erudite account of Jacques Derridas reading of philosophys leftovers in sacrifice, vomit, cadavers and other unassimilable figures. -- Elissa Marder, Emory University
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Departure
PART I. REMAIN(S)
1. Remain(s)The Master, or the Supplement of Infinity
Jacques Derrida
PART II. REMAINDER, REMAINS
2. What Remains: Remaining in Derridas Writings
PART III. TROPES OF CANNIBALISM
3. Leftovers
4. Cannibal: The Consumption of the Other
PART IV. ECONOMY OF SACRIFICE
5. Economy of Sacrifice
PART V. THE REMAINING OF THE REMAINDER
6. Leaving, Remaining
Bibliography
Index
Pleshette DeArmitt was Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She conducted research in contemporary French thought, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. Her articles on Derrida, Kofman, and Kristeva were published in Mosaic, Philosophy Today, Research in Phenomenology, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. She was the author of The Right to Narcissism: A Case for An Im-possible Self-Love (2014), co-editor of Sarah Kofmans Corpus (2008) and a memorial issue of Epoché on Derrida (2006). She also co-translated three essays by Derrida, A Europe of Hope (2006), Aletheia, (2010), and Remain(s)the Master, or the Supplement of Infinity. Kas Saghafi is Professor of Philosophy at University of Memphis. He researches and teaches in contemporary French thought. He is the author of two books, The World after the End of the World (2020) and ApparitionsOf Derrida's Other (2010) and numerous articles. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey Bennington, of a two-volume collection of Derridas writings entitled Thinking What Comes (2024). He has also co-translated, with Pleshette DeArmitt, four essays by Jacques Derrida.
