Derrida’s Umbrapolitics: Marrano “Living Together”

• Authors: Agata Bielik-Robson

Abstracts

EN

This essay focuses on political implications of Derrida’s messianicité as a form of Marrano messianism: a universal vision of community “out of joints” which, despite its disjointedness and inner separation, nonetheless addresses itself as “we” (although always in inverted commas). By referring to the generalized “Marrano experience” – the fate of those Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and, in consequence, became neither Jewish nor Christian – Derrida takes the Marrano as his paradigmatic political figure of a “rogue” (voyou) who escapes every identity politics. In Derrida’s project of “living together” (vivre ensemble), the Marrano stands for the non-participatory remnant of otherness which is not just the other of this or that particular tradition, but becomes a bearer of a new universalism, based not on the abstract notion of human nature but on the non-identity, a distance-from-identity or what Yirmijahu Yovel calls the “non-integral identity.”

Keywords

EN

derrida; political messianism; marranism; new universalism; critique of totalitarianism; democracy to come

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4

Contributors

author

Agata Bielik-Robson

• Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham
• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

• https://orcid.org/0000000296386758

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0041

Biblioteka Nauki

985698