Derrida in Prague: Poussin, Adami, Stoppard and the innocence of deconstruction. Issue 2 (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McQuillan, Martin
• Is Part Of: Derrida today. Volume 10:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 197
• Page End: 215
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Jacques Derrida -- deconstruction -- Prague -- drugs -- innocence -- Valerio Adami -- Nicolas Poussin -- Tom Stoppard; Philosophy, Modern -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 194
• DOI: 10.3366/drt.2017.0156
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1754-8500

Abstract

Abstract : This paper attends to the curious affair of Jacques Derrida in Prague when he was arrested by the Czechoslovakian police on charges of drug smuggling. It reads two images by Valerio Adami and Nicolas Poussin, entitled, 'The Massacre of the Innocents', Tom Stoppard's play, Professional Foul about dissident philosophers in Prague, and a section from Ken McMullen's film Ghost Dance on Kafka. It turns around the question of what 'innocence' might mean in politics and reading.