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Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence
- Diacritics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, Spring-Summer 2008
- pp. 17-29
- 10.1353/dia.0.0049
- Article
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Abstract
This essay begins in the mode of exposition of the problem of the secret as the link between literature and democracy but moves to respond to Derrida's text with a “heretical rewriting,” pursuing the notions of heresy and of rhetorical dissidence and the functioning of the anecdote, which illuminate Derrida's account of democracy
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