The King is dead! Long live the King!

Chiara Alfano

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    Abstract

    This book chapter asks how deconstruction should survive Derrida's death in the context of Ernst Kantorowicz's notion of the king's two bodies. In order to do so Alfano considers Derrida's work on mourning in The Work of Mourning, particularly his piece on Sarah Kofman's interpretation of Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicholas Tulp (1623) in relation to his account of an anatomical dissection in The Beast & the Sovereign.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDesire in ashes
    Subtitle of host publicationdeconstruction, psychoanalysis, philosophy
    EditorsSimon Morgan Wortham, Chiara Alfano
    Place of PublicationLondon, U.K.
    PublisherBloomsbury Academic
    Pages161-185
    ISBN (Print)9781472529138
    Publication statusPublished - 2016

    Publication series

    NameBloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
    PublisherBloomsbury Academic

    Keywords

    • English language and literature

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