In the name of friendship : : Deguy, Derrida and salut / / edited and translated by Christopher Elson, Garry Sherbert.

• TeilnehmendeR: Elson, Christopher, 1965-; Sherbert, Garry, 1957-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill-Rodopi,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; French
• Series: Chiasma 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 531 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Polemical Introduction /; 1 The Poetics of Friendship /; 2 “The Sacred Without the Sacred”: Salut and the Metonymy of Poetic Nomination /; 3 Of Contemporaneity: A Talk for Jacques Derrida /; 4 The Poet’s Duty: Michel Deguy’s Deconstructive Poethics /; 5 How to Name /; 6 Calling Names: Derrida, Deguy, and Spectropoetics /; 7 “A Religion of the Event”: Salut, Ethics, and Quasi-Atheistic Transcendence /; Conclusion /; Appendix of Additional Texts by Michel Deguy /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004341617
• ISSN: 1380-7811
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited and translated by Christopher Elson, Garry Sherbert.

In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and \' Salut \' centres on the relationship between poet Michel Deguy and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Translations of two essays, \'Of Contemporaneity\' by Deguy and \'How to Name\' by Derrida, allow Christopher Elson and Garry Sherbert to develop the implications of this singular intellectual friendship. In these thinkers’ efforts to reinvent secular forms of the sacred, such as the singularity of the name, and especially poetic naming, Deguy, by adopting a Derridean programme of the impossible, and Derrida, by developing Deguy's ethics of naming through the word \'salut,\' situate themselves at the forefront of contemporary debates over politics and religion alongside figures like Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo and Martin Hagglund.