The Witches of Hegel. On the Milky Origin of Evil

This essay proposes a reading of the philosophical problem of evil in Derrida’s works by calling attention to the figures of witch, cow and milk. I will follow this problem through his interpretations of Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud (especially as found in Glas [1974] and the unpublished seminar Mange...

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Autor: Rodríguez Gómez, Federico
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/64982
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon/224131
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/64982
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Evil
Milk
Witch
Cow
Gift
Eating
Mal
Leche
Bruja
Vaca
Don
Comer
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Sumario:This essay proposes a reading of the philosophical problem of evil in Derrida’s works by calling attention to the figures of witch, cow and milk. I will follow this problem through his interpretations of Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud (especially as found in Glas [1974] and the unpublished seminar Manger l’autre [1989-90]). I first propose certain philosophical and psychoanalytic variations that aid in understanding a set of complicated cross- references directly or indirectly established with Hamacher’s works and the problem of eating (especially: Pleroma [1978]). Secondly, I show how the discussion of the problem of evil in these three figures can become a central locus for “deconstructive readings” (for readings that privilege a certain irreducible “complication” or “double-bind”).