Volume 10, Issue 2, Spring 2006
An Entrusted Responsibility: Reading and Remembering Jacques Derrida
Thomas Dutoit
Pages 237-261
Dare He Die, Dear Reader
Obligasequence, Obliquence, Oblivisequence, Oblicksequence, Ébloubélierséquence
The epigraph from Adieu. À Emmanuel Levinas for this issue is here throughout the linchpin, the Triebfeder or the spring, the feather of impulse, of drive or of desire, out of which this paper attempts to formulate the relation, “in Derrida,” of desire and obligation, sexual pleasure and moral law, Emmanuel Levinas and Immanuel Kant, the letters b + l (and thus the words and things called éblouissement [dazzlement], obligation, oblivion, obliquity, bells and cloches, Mallarmean alarms), mourning and melancholy, but and butt, rams (béliers) and rebellion, rebellion and oblivion, good conscience and good unconsciousness, and, ultimately, non-reading and reading.