Writing the exile and the hypothesis of the Marrano (Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida and beyond)

The representation of exile does not erase its pain, but initiates a movement of introspection of the subject. Exile is in excess on its representation, it lacks a ground for its writing, a void we will analyze through four ellipses: 1/ The exile of exile with regard to the German Jewish writers who, according to Kafka, could neither write nor not write; 2/ The transcendental exile of the living and the dead for Benjamin which requires a totally different writing of history; 3/ The former exile that is the circumcision of language according to Derrida, to which answers the reaffirmation of the body and the name, of the sex and the signature; 4/ The Judeo-Christian Marrano as imaginary figure of secret exile, to which can only answer a memory of immemoriality.

L’auteur

Marc Goldschmit est philosophe, chercheur à l’Institut des Hautes Études en Psychanalyse. Il a publié: Jacques Derrida, une introduction (Agora-Pocket, 2003); L’écriture du messianique. La philosophie secrète de Walter Benjamin (Hermann, 2010) ; L’hypothèse du Marrane (Éditions du Félin, 2014). Deux livres à paraître: Littérature et Métaphysique et Sous la peau métaphysique du langage.