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In A Theory of Regret Brian Price contends that regret is better understood as an important political emotion than as a form of weakness. Price shows how regret allows us to see that our convictions are more often the products of our perceptual habits than the authentic signs of moral courage that we more regularly take them to be. Regret teaches us to give up our expectations of what we think should or might occur in the future, and also the idea that what we think we should do will always be the right thing to do. Understood instead as a mode of thoughtfulness, regret helps us to clarify our will in relation to the decisions we make within institutional forms of existence. Considering regret in relation to emancipatory theories of thinking, Price shows how the unconditionally transformative nature of this emotion helps us become more sensitive to contingency and allows us, in turn, to recognize the steps we can take toward changing the institutions that shape our lives.

Regret. --- Emotions --- Philosophy --- Aristotle --- Bureaucracy --- Hypocrisy --- Jacques Derrida --- Logic --- Martin Heidegger

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Jacques Derrida --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- schilderkunst --- esthetica --- 75.01 --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- philosophy of art --- kunstfilosofie

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The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, “The Beast and the Sovereign” (2001–3), as the explicit themes of the seminar—namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal—come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world. The book begins with Derrida’s analyses, in the first year of the seminar, of the question of the animal in the context of his other published works on the same subject. It then follows Derrida through the second year of the seminar, presented in Paris from December 2002 to March 2003, as a very different tone begins to make itself heard, one that wavers between melancholy and an extraordinary lucidity with regard to the end. Focusing the entire year on just two works, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Martin Heidegger’s seminar of 1929–30, “The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics,” the seminar comes to be dominated by questions of the end of the world and of an originary violence that at once gives rise to and effaces all things. The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows Derrida as he responds from week to week to these emerging questions, as well as to important events unfolding around him, both world events—the aftermath of 9/11, the American invasion of Iraq—and more personal ones, from the death of Maurice Blanchot to intimations of his own death less than two years away. All this, the book concludes, makes this final seminar an absolutely unique work in Derrida’s corpus, one that both speaks of death as the end of the world and itself now testifies to that end—just one, though hardly the least, of its many teachable moments.

Philosophy. --- Derrida, Jacques. --- Animality. --- Death. --- Deconstruction. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Mourning. --- Sovereignty. --- World.

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Die Erfahrung digitaler Schriftlichkeit hat nicht bloß die Materialität der Schrift bewusster gemacht, sondern auch die gegenwärtige Schriftpraxis als eine maschinell bedingte offenbart. Von diesem Befund ausgehend, nehmen die Beiträger*innen des Bandes die Agentialität der Schrift genauer in den Blick und prüfen auch für die analoge Praxis, welche Handlungsmacht sie besitzt. Mit ihrem Blick auf nicht-menschliche Aktanten sowie die Aktivität von Schrift machen sie deren spezifische Agentialität deutlich und geben rückwirkend Aufschluss über das weiterhin vage Konzept der Schriftlichkeit.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Agentiality. --- Culture. --- Digital Humanities. --- Digital Media. --- Digitalization. --- Gender. --- German Literature. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Karen Barad. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Materiality. --- Media Theory. --- Media. --- Text. --- Writing Practice. --- Writing.

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L’ambition de ce volume, qui rassemble des études sur des écrivains de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle (Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi) et du début du XXIe siècle (Bruno Arpaia, Rafael Chirbes, Julio Llamazares, Walter Siti, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Giorgio Vasta), est d’interroger le retour du refoulé historique dans la littérature contemporaine de l’Italie, de l’Espagne et du Portugal à partir du concept de spectralité forgé par Jacques Derrida. De nombreuses œuvres littéraires semblent recourir au spectre pour figurer un nouveau régime d’historicité mais aussi un temps présent désarticulé et hétérogène et perçu comme de plus en plus en manque de réel. En effet, « revenant » du passé ou projection paradoxale du présent, le spectre marque un point irrésolu de l’histoire tout en révélant les enjeux fondamentaux de notre temps.

Fiction --- Italian fiction --- Spanish fiction --- Portuguese fiction --- Ghosts in literature --- Reminiscing in literature --- History and criticism --- Portuguese literature --- Spanish literature --- Italian literature --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- roman contemporain --- XXe siècle --- Jacques Derrida --- spectralités