These are some of our key theoretical sources for the project:

Alloa, E. and D. Thomä, eds. Transparency, Society and Subjectivity. Critical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2018.

Attridge, Derek. Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction’s Traces. Edinburgh UP, 2010.

Barbour, Charles. Derrida’s Secret: Perjury, Testimony, Oath. Edinburgh UP, 2017.

Bensman J. and R. Lilienfeld, Between Public and Private: The Lost Boundaries of the Self. Free P, 1979.

Best, Stephen and Sharon Marcus. “Surface Reading: An Introduction”. Representations 108.1 (2009): 1-21.

Birchall, Clare. “Transparency, Interrupted: Secrets of the Left”. Theory, Culture and Society 28.7-8 (2011): 1-25.

---. “Aesthetics of the Secret”. new formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics (2015): 1-21.

---. “Six Answers to the Question ‘What is Secrecy Studies?’”. Secrecy and Society 1.1 (2016). Online.

Bok, Sissela. Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. Oxford UP, 1984.

Boothroyd, Dave. “Off the Record: Levinas, Derrida and the Secret of Responsibility”. Theory, Culture and Society 28.7-8 (2011): 41-59.

Borradori, Giovanna. Philosophy in a Time of Terror. Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. U of Chicago P, 2003.

Brin, David. The Transparent Society. Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Broeders, Dennis. “The Secret in the Information Society”. Philosophy and Technology 29.3 (2016): 293–305.

Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot. Yale UP, 1987.

---. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Calinescu, Matei. Rereading. Yale UP, 1993.

---. “Secrecy in Fiction: Textual and Intertextual Secrets in Hawthorne and Updike.” Poetics Today 15.3 (1994): 443-465.

Caputo, John D. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. Fordham UP, 1997.

Dean, Jodi. Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy. Cornell UP, 2002.

Derrida, Jacques. Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money (1991). Trans. Peggy Kamuf. U of Chicago P, 1992a.

---. The Other Heading: Reflections on Today’s Europe. Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Indiana UP, 1992b.

---. Points…: Interviews 1974-1994 (1992). Ed. Elizabeth Weber. Trans Peggy Kamuff et al. Stanford UP, 1995a.

---. “Passions: ‘An Oblique Offering’”. In On the Name (1993). Ed. Thomas Dutoit. Trans. David Wood, John P. Leavey, Jr., and Ian McLeod. Stanford UP, 1995b. 3-31.

---. The Politics of Friendship (1994). Trans. George Collins. Verso, 1997.

---. “Politics and Friendship” (1989). Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews 1971–2001. Ed. Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford UP, 2002. 147–98.

---. Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (2003). Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Stanford UP, 2005.

---. Literature in Secret (1999). Trans. David Wills. U of Chicago P, 2008.

---. and Maurizio Ferraris. A Taste for the Secret (1997). Trans. Giacomo Donis. Ed. Giacomo Donis and David Webb. Polity P, 2001.

Felski, Rita. The Limits of Critique. U of Chicago P, 2015.

Fritsch, Mattias. “Derrida’s Democracy to Come” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 9.4 (2002), 574-597.

Gandhi, Leela. Affective Communities: Anti-colonial Thought, Fin-de-siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. Duke UP, 2005.

Gilbert, Jeremy. “Public Secrets: ‘Being-with in an Era of Perpetual Disclosure”. Cultural Studies Vol. 21, No. 1 (2007): 22-41.

Glissant, Edouard. Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. U of Michigan P, 1997.

Han, Byung Chui. The Transparency Society. Stanford UP, 2015.

Hood, C. and D. Heald, eds. Transparency: The Key to Better Governance? Oxford UP, 2006.

Horn, Eva. “Logics of Political Secrecy”, Theory, Culture and Society, 28.7-8 (2011): 103-122.

James, David. “Critical Solace”. New Literary History 47.4 (2016): 481–504.

Kermode, Frank. The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative. Harvard UP, 1979.

Koselleck, Reinhart. Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society. MIT Press, 1988.

Levine, Caroline. Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Princeton UP. 2015.

Mouffe, Chantal. The Democratic Paradox. Verso, 2000.

---. “Democratic citizenship and the political community.” In Miami Theory Collective. Community at Loose Ends. U of Minnesota P, 1991. 70-80.

Patton, Paul. “Derrida, Politics and Democracy to Come”. Philosophy Compass 2.6 (2007): 766–780.

Quill, L. Secrets and Democracy. From Arcana Imperii to Wikileaks. Palgrave, 2014.

Simmel, Georg. “The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies.” American Journal of Sociology 11 (1906): 441-498.

Thomson, A.J.P. Deconstruction and Democracy. Bloomsbury, 2005.

Wills, David. “Passionate Secrets and Democratic Dissidence”. Diacritics 38.1/2 (2008): 17-22, 24-29.