The Wake

  • Peggy Kamuf University of Southern California
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2011.37665
Keywords: Veille, sillage, watchfulness, writing of the wake, critique, interruption, dream

Abstract

Between two languages, the translation of veille or veiller as wake or to wake creates an unexpected convergence between wake (veille) and wake (sillage). Based on it, the author traces in Derrida’s work a writing of the wake which weaves in it another form of critical vigilance as attentive listening to interruption, change in tone and the irruption of the other. This watchfulness does not end in the enlightened hyper critique, but, beyond the metaphysical opposition between dream and wake, it looks after the dream to take care of what is “to-come”.

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Kamuf P. (2012). The Wake. Escritura e Imagen, Extra, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ESIM.2011.37665
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No. Extra (2011): Herencias de Derrida/Héritages de Derrida
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