Thinking Out of Sight

Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Jacques Derrida, Joana Masó, Ginette Michaud , Javier Bassas

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University of Chicago Press
15 April 2021

Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: The France Chicago Collection

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today—and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking out of Sight brings to light Derrida’s most inventive ideas about the making of visual artworks.

The book is divided into three sections. The first demonstrates Derrida’s preoccupation with visibility, image, and space. The second contains interviews and collaborations with artists on topics ranging from the politics of color to the components of painting. Finally, the book delves into Derrida’s writings on photography, video, cinema, and theater, ending with a text published just before his death about his complex relationship to his own image. With many texts appearing for the first time in English, Thinking out of Sight helps us better understand the critique of representation and visibility throughout Derrida’s work, and, most importantly, to assess the significance of his insights about art and its commentary.

By: Jacques Derrida
Edited by: Joana Masó, Ginette Michaud, Javier Bassas
Translated by: Laurent Milesi
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9780226140612
ISBN 10: 022614061X
Series: The France Chicago Collection
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 15 April 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Editors’ Foreword Part 1: The Traces of the Visible The Spatial Arts: An Interview by Peter Brunette and David Wills Thinking Out of Sight Trace and Archive, Image and Art Part 2: Rhetoric of the Line: Painting, Drawing To Illustrate, He Said The Philosopher’s Design: An Interview by Jérôme Coignard Drawing by Design Pregnances To Save the Phenomena: For Salvatore Puglia Four Ways to Drawing Ecstasy, Crisis: An Interview with Valerio Adami and Roger Lesgards Color to the Letter The “Undersides” of Painting, Writing, and Drawing: Support, Substance, Subject, Suppost, and Supplice Part 3: Spectralities of the Image: Photography, Video, Cinema, and Theater Aletheia Videor The Ghost Dance: An Interview by Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview by Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse The Sacrifice Marx Is (Quite) Somebody The Survivor, the Surcease, the Surge Notes Bibliography on the Arts and Architecture Filmography Notes on Editors and Translators Index

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Ginette Michaud is professor in the Département des littératures de langue française at the Université de Montréal. Joana Masó teaches French literature and composition at the University of Barcelona, where Javier Bassas teaches translation theory. Laurent Milesi is professor of English literature and critical theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Reviews for Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Arts of the Visible

This wonderful collection brings together several of Derrida's most beautiful and wildly engaging thoughts on the visual and performing arts. Many of the essays, lectures, and interviews are presented here for the first time in English, and others are even published for the first time anywhere. Together, not only do they delineate the relations among drawing, painting, photography, film, theater, and writing, but they also suggest that the arts are never just art; they are different modes of thinking and writing. This collection offers an exquisitely rich introduction to Derrida's singular contribution to the arts of reading and thinking. --Eduardo L. Cadava, Princeton University Who other than Jacques Derrida could have demonstrated with this degree of insight and lucidity the essential relationship between the visual arts and invisibility, nonappearance, absence, the night, blindness, even death? This superb collection of essays on painting, drawing, photography, video, cinema, and theater will forever transform both the way we understand Derrida and the way we look at the visual arts. --Michael Naas, DePaul University