Journey with J on the Jour J

• Published in: Critical inquiry Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 684 - 688
• Main Author: Kujundzic, Dragan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago The University of Chicago Press 01-03-2005; University of Chicago, acting through its Press
• Subjects: Derrida, Jacques; Justice; Justices of the peace; Literary criticism; Miller, J Hillis (Joseph Hillis) (1928-2021); Movies; Rapprochement; Writers
• ISSN: 0093-1896; 1539-7858
• DOI: 10.1086/430990

Kujundzic introduces two essays by two Js: J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida. He says that it would be presumptuous to attempt to introduce the work of Miller and Derrida in the few pages generously given to him to provide some minimal context for their essays--both are authors of colossal opuses, distinctive from each other, singular and inimitable but they are also superimposed, just as in the opening pages of Derrida's "Justices," where the j of the je disappears into the other. Kujundzic traces the point of contact between the two texts, precisely there where the question or the argument touches upon an opening taste of the other, as if in a kiss.