Triangulating Édouard Glissant, Jacques Derrida, and Albert Memmi

Grant Farred, Sophia Jahadhmy, Alex van Biema

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978762299
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: French History

This book uses Édouard Glissant's concept of the transfer and the transplant to examine Jacques Derrida and Albert Memmi's distinctive relationships to French colonialism.

Both the transfer and the transplant undertake the work of reconciling oneself with the place of first habitation, the process of dislocation, and the new place of habitation. In Glissant's definition, the transplant makes an effort to maintain the culture of first place of habitation, while the transfer attempts to form a relationship with the new place of habitation. The essays featured in this volume designate Memmi, the Tunisian, as the transplant while Derrida, the Algerian, struggles with the difficulties of the transfer. By engaging with the work of these three figures, this book presents a triangulation of Mediterranean-Atlantic-metropolitan French philosophical thought.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Unoriginal
• 1 On the Hyphenated Condition: Citizenship, Belonging, and Responsibility to the Self and Other
• 2 Thinking with La Guyane/Guiana in Jacques Derrida’s Glas (1974) and Édouard Glissant’s Le Discours antillais (1981)
• 3 The Fates of Fatalism
• 4 The Fecundity of a Second-Sight: Albert Memmi and Double-Consciousness, the Veil and Opacity
• 5 Polysemic Pillars of Salt: Possibilities and Limitations of Maghrebi Jewish Radicalism in Albert Memmi’s The Pillar of Salt (1955)
• 6 Dachte Armselig
• Index
• Imprint