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Temporal Exile in the Time of Fiction: Reading Derrida Reading Blanchot’s The Instant of My Death
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 4, December 2015
- pp. 17-32
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0048
- Article
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This essay asks whether or not Martin Hägglund’s reassessment of the Derridean project of deconstruction as a project defending diachronic temporality is amenable to thinking the peculiar temporalities of literature and fiction that Derrida, in “Demeure: Fiction and Testimony,” detects in Maurice Blanchot’s The Instant of My Death.