Books by Jacques Derrida

Book SynopsisSurveying Husserl's major work on phenomenology , Derrida reveals what he sees as an internal tension in Husserl's notion of 'genesis' and gives a glimpse into the concerns that would later lead him to abandon phenomenology and develop his method of deconstruction.

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Book SynopsisFocuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.Trade Review"What Derrida accomplishes in this, his final seminar, is remarkable because it goes to the very heart of his lifelong project of deconstructing the logocentric bias of Western thinking." (Choice) "What this first volume... provides beyond its treatment of the fascinatingly intricate literary and philosophical motifs of bestiality and sovereignty is a vivid attestation to the experience of Derrida as a teacher - the quality of his attention, the tone and rhythm of his voice, his means of sparking his students' capacities to read and think." (Times Literary Supplement)"

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Book SynopsisNietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis of the challenges bequeathed to the modern world by Nietzsche. Spurs, then, is aptly titled, for Derrida's deconstructions of Nietzsche's meanings will surely act as spurs to further thought and controversy. This dual-language edition offers the English-speaking reader who has some knowledge of French an opportunity to examine the stylistic virtuosity of Derrida's writing of particular significance for his analysis of the question of style.

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Book SynopsisThe newest in our lectures series, this one is from 1976 and ’77 and covers Marx and Heidegger and prefigures Derrida’s work in Specters of Marx.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a splendid translation of one of Derrida's most challenging seminars, one that relates, in unprecedented ways, the vocabulary and concepts of historical and contemporary biology and genetics with selected and relevant works of Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Freud."--Dawne McCance, author of The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La Vie la Mort "Derrida's 1975-76 seminar, Life Death, is surely one of his greatest achievements. It begins with a deconstructive reading of Francois Jacob's Logic of the Living, advancing to a critique of scientific 'models' in general. It then takes up Nietzsche's notions of life and the living in terms of both biography and biology. Finally, it reads Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in an exciting and challenging way. The translation by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas is reliable and eminently readable."--David Farrell Krell, author of The Sea: A Philosophical EncounterTable of ContentsForeword to the English Edition General Introduction to the French Edition Editorial Note Translators’ Note First Session: Programs Second Session: Logic of the Living (She the Living) Third Session: Transition (Oedipus’s Faux Pas) Fourth Session: The Logic of the Supplement: The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of Life Fifth Session: The Indefatigable Sixth Session: The “Limping” Model: The Story of the Colossus Seventh Session Eighth Session: Cause (“Nietzsche”) Ninth Session: Of Interpretation Tenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor—and the Contagion of the Proper Name Eleventh Session: The Escalade—of the Devil in Person Twelfth Session: Freud’s Leg(acies) Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis Fourteenth Session: Tightenings Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisCollecting the best of the author's work that was published in the Critical Inquiry journal between 1980 and 2002, this title provides an introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.Trade Review"Along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida... will be remembered as one of the three most important philosophers of the twentieth century. No thinker in the last one hundred years had a greater impact than he did on people in more fields and different disciplines." (New York Times) "Jacques Derrida revolutionised our understanding of words, texts, reading, and authorship.... Each publication is a singular demonstration of a patient response to the contours, rhythms, and turns of the subject being addressed." (Times (UK))"

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Book SynopsisThis is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary, subtle and informative anthology...The work is presented scrupulously, generously, with consummate art and skill, and will stand as a benchmark for Derrida studies for some time to come. SubstanceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Reading Between the Blinds Part One: Difference at the Origin 1. From Speech and Phenomena 2. From Of Grammatology 3. From "Difference" 4. "Signature Event Context" 5. From "Plato's Pharmacy" Part Two: Beside Philosophy-"Literature" 6. "Tympan" 7. From "The Double Session" 8. From "Psyche: Inventions of the Other" 9. "Che cos'e la poesia?" Part Three: More than One Language 10. From "Des Tours de Babel" 11. From "Living on: Border Lines" 12. "Letter to a Japanese Friend" 13. From "Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing" Part Four: Sexual Difference in Philosophy 14. From Glas 15. From Spurs: Nietsche's Styles 16. "Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference" 17. From "At this Very Moment in This Work Here I Am" 18. From Choreographies" Part Five: Tele-Types (Yes, Yes) 19. From "Le Facteur de la verite" 20. From "Envois" 21. From "To Speculate--on 'Freud'" 22. From "ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce" Bibliography of Works in Jacques Derrida Selected Works on Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art on Antonin Artaud. Artaud the Moma reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida—and to art and its institutional history. It is a powerful interjection into the museum halls, a crucial moment in Derrida’s thought, and an insightful reading of a challenging writer and artist.Trade ReviewOne of Derrida's most extraordinarily deep and and virtuosic texts and one of the best ever written about Artaud. -- Denis Hollier, New York UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceArtaud the MomaAfterword, by Kaira M. CabañasNotesAcknowledgments, by Kaira M. Cabañas

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Book SynopsisPresenting an interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", this title relates writing to such key concepts as differing, consciousness, presence, and historicity.Trade Review"One of Derrida’s best."—Radical Philosophy"Derrida's 'deconstructive' critique of phenomenology relates writing to the key concept of 'consciousness of difference.' Following Husserl, he explores the philosophical and traditional roots of geometry and the sciences as a kind of history. . . . [This book] shows original thinking, and [is] accurate but demanding."—Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.Trade Review"A significant new scholarly resource, the interviews add up to a collective diagetical gloss on Derrida's major texts. The volume will be indispensable to any student and scholar of literature for whom deconstruction is important, whether as an inspiration and model or as a bête noire." -- Henry Sussman, SUNY * Buffalo *"Here Derrida himself provides a guide and commentary to his work. . . . This collection is particularly welcome because Derrida's work in the past 20 years has taken off in a variety of new directions that have often left critics puzzled." -- ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Upside-down writing Elizabeth Weber 1. Between Brackets. 2. Ja, or the faux-bond. 3. 'The Almost Nothing of the Unpresentable' 4. Choreographies 5. Of a certain college international de philosophie still to come 6. Unsealing ('the new old language') 7. 'Dialanguages' 8. Voice Part II. 9. Language (Le Monde on the telephone) 10. Heidegger, the philosopher's hell 11. Comment donner raison? 'How to concede, with reasons?' 12. 'There is no one narcissism' (Autobiographies) 13. Is there a philosophical language? 14. The rhetoric of drugs 15. 'Eating well', or the calculation of the subject 16. Che cos'è la poesia? 17. Istrice 2: Ick bunn all hier. 18. Once again from the top: of the right to philosophy 19. 'A 'madness' must watch over thinking' 20. Counter-signatures 21. Passages from traumatism to promise 22. Two 'Affairs' 23. Honoris Causa: 'This is also extremely funny' 24. The work of intellectuals and the press (The bad example: how the New York Review of Books and company do business).

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents three essays by the French philosopher and theorist Jacques Derrida on the ethical, political and linguistic issues posed by the act of "naming"Trade Review“A major new book by Derrida that represents his most recent thinking, and includes landmark readings of Plato and the German poet-mystic Angelus Silesius. The essays are wonderfully rich and provocative, and, in spite of their apparent diversity of topic, are bound together as three ways of approaching the problematic of naming and speaking of something that exceeds ‘isness.’ ”—J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

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Book SynopsisIn this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various "resistances" to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.Trade Review'An engrossing critique of psychoanalysis, a confessional memoir, a tale of intellectual influences, a history of the great twentieth-century love affairwith Freudian thought - such is Resistance of Psychoanalysis, a book to raise the level of debate over the politics of deconstruction several notches.' The AustralianTable of Contents1. Resistances 2. For the love of Lacan 3. 'To do justice to Freud': the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas''s funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas''s death. For both thinkers, the word adieu names a fundamental characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say adieu at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is also the a-dieu, for God or to God before and in any relation to the other. In this book, Derrida extends his work on Levinas in previously unexplored directions via a radical rereading of Totality and Infinity and other texts, including the lesser-known talmudic readings. He argues that Levinas, especially in Totality and Infinity, bequeaths to us an immense treatise of hospitality, a meditation on the welcome offered to the other. TheTable of Contents1. Adieu 2. A word of welcome Notes.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death.Table of Contents1. Adieu 2. A word of welcome Notes.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together four of Jacques Derrida's essays on Maurice Blanchot's fictions: "Pace Not(s)," "Living on," "Title To Be Specified," and "The Law of Genre."Trade Review"The four essays on Maurice Blanchot that are collected here (written between 1976 and 79) constitute some of Derrida's most memorable writing, and attest to Blanchot's enormous influence on Derrida as a thinker and author . . . Highly recommended."—N. Lukacher, CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThis volume reflects Jacques Derrida''s engagement in the late 1970s with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy and the reform of the French university system. He was a founding member of the Research Group on the Teaching of Philosophy (Greph), an activist group that mobilized opposition to the Giscard government''s proposals to rationalize the French educational system in 1975, and a convener of the Estates General of Philosophy, a vast gathering in 1979 of educators from across France.While addressing specific contemporary political issues on occasion, thus providing insight into the pragmatic deployment of deconstructive analysis, the essays deal mainly with much broader concerns. With his typical rigor and spark, Derrida investigates the genealogy of several central concepts which any debate about teaching and the university must confront.Thus there are essays on the teaching body, both the faculty corps and the strange interplay in the FreTrade Review“This book is of extraordinary importance. It collects one of the most important and underappreciated aspects of Derrida’s work - his investigations into the institutions of philosophical research and teaching - in a definitive and comprehensive volume. These essays are crucial to an understanding of Derrida, and their publication in English is a milestone.”—Thoman Keenan, Bard College

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Book SynopsisThis volume reflects Jacques Derrida's engagement in the late 1970s with French political debates on the teaching of philosophy and the reform of the French university system.Trade Review“This book is of extraordinary importance. It collects one of the most important and underappreciated aspects of Derrida’s work - his investigations into the institutions of philosophical research and teaching - in a definitive and comprehensive volume. These essays are crucial to an understanding of Derrida, and their publication in English is a milestone.”—Thoman Keenan, Bard College

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Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Book SynopsisCompleting the translation of Derrida''s monumental work Right to Philosophy (the first part of which has already appeared under the title of Who''s Afraid of Philosophy?), Eyes of the University brings together many of the philosopher''s most important texts on the university and, more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy.In addition to considerations of the implications for literature and philosophy of French becoming a state language, of Descartes'' writing of the Discourse on Method in French, and of Kant''s and Schelling''s philosophies of the university, the volume reflects on the current state of research and teaching in philosophy and on the question of what Derrida calls a university responsibility.Examining the political and institutional conditions of philosophy, the essays collected here question the growing tendency to orient research and teaching towards a programmable and profitable end. The volume is thereTrade Review"From each of these punctual documents, supplemented by numerous helpful translator's notes, emerges the clear profile of Derrida's principled and relentless commitment to the teaching of philosophy as a right in any democracy worthy of the name."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Some books recommend themselves by what is written therein; others are to be recommended for what they may inspire their readers to think, say, and do. Few books fall into both categories; the collection of pieces that is Eyes of the University does. But here, near the end, I have chosen my words carefully: "what they may inspire." The rest is up to us."—Philosophy and Rhetoric

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together five essays by Jacques Derrida that advance his reflections on many issues: lying perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and cruelty, soverignty, and capital punishment.

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Book SynopsisThis dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two friends who share a common history and intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are different, they have many common references: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known as "post-structuralist."Trade Review"Jacques Derrida, notorious for producing intensely difficult works on aspects of the history of philosophy, here shows himself in another light dealing concretely and practically with some of the pressing social and political issues of our day." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus philosophiques

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Book SynopsisA twenty-eight essay collection that is published in two volumes. This work includes translations of seminal essays such as "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"; as well as three essays that appear in English.Trade Review"Derrida's writing is never easy, but the 16 pieces gathered here are exceptionally lucid and clearly translated, and they offer a useful, engaging entrée to Derrida's work for advanced undergraduates and all graduate philosophy students."— CHOICENamed one of ArtForum's Best Books of 2007!"Psyche offers a wide-ranging introduction to Derrida's engagement with the ethicopolitical implications of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Here, his meditations on mourning, specularity, memory, performativity, and much else are framed in what he describes as the 'quasi-epistolary situation' of the collected essays."—ArtForum"A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning, and a welcome addition to philosophy shelves and libraries."—Midwest Book Review"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work." —Michael Naas, DePaul University"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought." —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Editors' Foreword iii Author's Preface iii @toc2:1 Psyche: Invention of the Other 0 2 The Retrait of Metaphor 00 3 What Remains by Force of Music 00 4 To Illustrate, He Said 000 5 Envoi 000 6 Me--Psychoanalysis 000 7 At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am 000 8 Des tours de Babel 000 9 Telepathy 000 10 Ex abrupto 000 11 The Deaths of Roland Barthes 000 12 An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter" 000 13 Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world" 000 14 My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies 000 15 Racism's Last Word 000 16 No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives 000 @toc4:Notes 000

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Book SynopsisA twenty-eight essay collection that is published in two volumes. This work includes translations of seminal essays such as "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"; as well as three essays that appear in English.Trade Review"Derrida's writing is never easy, but the 16 pieces gathered here are exceptionally lucid and clearly translated, and they offer a useful, engaging entrée to Derrida's work for advanced undergraduates and all graduate philosophy students."— CHOICENamed one of ArtForum's Best Books of 2007!"Psyche offers a wide-ranging introduction to Derrida's engagement with the ethicopolitical implications of deconstruction and psychoanalysis. Here, his meditations on mourning, specularity, memory, performativity, and much else are framed in what he describes as the 'quasi-epistolary situation' of the collected essays."—ArtForum"A highly analytical and thoughtful compendium of meticulous reasoning, and a welcome addition to philosophy shelves and libraries."—Midwest Book Review"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work." —Michael Naas, DePaul University"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought." —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Editors' Foreword iii Author's Preface iii @toc2:1 Psyche: Invention of the Other 0 2 The Retrait of Metaphor 00 3 What Remains by Force of Music 00 4 To Illustrate, He Said 000 5 Envoi 000 6 Me--Psychoanalysis 000 7 At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am 000 8 Des tours de Babel 000 9 Telepathy 000 10 Ex abrupto 000 11 The Deaths of Roland Barthes 000 12 An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter" 000 13 Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world" 000 14 My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies 000 15 Racism's Last Word 000 16 No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives 000 @toc4:Notes 000

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Book SynopsisRogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term État voyou is the French equivalent of rogue state, and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines.Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of democracy to come, which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked Trade Review"Rogues is Derrida's most sustained reflection on deconstruction's relation to political theory in general and to the idea of democracy in particular. . . . Highly recommended."—CHOICE"It is clear that Derrida was keen that the idea of 'democracy to come' would be central to the legacy of his thought, and for those who choose to take up that burden, Rogues will prove essential."—Times Literary SupplementTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Preface: Veni iii @toc1:The Reason of the Strongest (Are there Rogue States?) @toc2:1 The Free Wheel 000 2 License and Freedom: the roue 000 3 The other of democracy, the "by turns": alternative and alternation 000 4 Mastery and Measure 000 5 Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or How Not to Speak in Mottos 000 6 The Rogue that I Am 000 7 God, What More Do I Have To Say? In What Language To Come? 000 8 The Last of the Rogue States: The "Democracy to Come," Opening in Two Turns 000 9 (No) More Rogue States 000 10 Sending 000 @toc1:The "World" of the Enlightenment to Come (Exception, Calculation, Sovereignty) @toc2:1 Teleology and Architectonic: The Neutralization of the Event 000 2 To Arrive--at the Ends of the State (and of War, and of World War) 000 @toc4:Notes 000

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Book SynopsisH. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida''s literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Hélène Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida''s reading here is that of taking sides. While Hélène Cixous in her life and work takes the side of life, for life, Derrida admits always feeling drawn to the side of death. Rather than being an obvious choice, taking the side of life is an act of faith, by wagering one''s life on life. H. C. for Life sets up and explores this interminable argument between Derrida and Cixous as to what death has in store deep within life itself, before the end. In addition to being a memoir, it is also a theoretical confrontationfor example about the meaning of might and omnipotence, and a philosophical and philological analysis of the crypts within the vast oeuvre of Hélène Cixous. Finally, the book is Derrida''s tribute to the thought of the woman whom he regards as one of the great French poets, writers, and thinTrade Review"H.C. for Life, That Is to Say represents a vigorous volley within the series produced by the mutual provocation society of Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida. The particular provocation here--even more moving now that Derrida has gone--is his insistence that they fall on one side or the other of the question of life and death. She is for life, whereas for him one always dies in the end. Veritably incited, however, by Cixous' work, Derrida cannot avoid writing for her, on her side; and he cannot avoid provoking, in the sense of writing on behalf of, or on the side of her voice, reading and citing at length, playing off the polyphonic effects of a poetics that he considers to be among 'the most powerful and the most engaged in thinking in the history of literature.'"—Gary Wills, University at Albany-SUNY"Because Hélene Cixous (the H.C. of the title) has a genius for making language speak and because no one knew better than Derrida how to mine the secret's of Cixous's profoundly complex and beguiling prose, this volume stands out as exceptional."—CHOICE"H.C. for Life is, to be sure, a more than worthy homage to Cixous, all 173 pages of it, an homage that will incite the reader to read and reread the entirety of Cixous' difficult though fascinating and unique corpus. In this work, Derrida pays homage to the rich and powerful work of Hélene Cixous by rethinking the very concept of life in relationship to power, death, literature, and so on." —symploke

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Book SynopsisThe book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little known interview that Jacques Derrida granted on the question of photography and its relation to such key deconstructive concepts as copy, archive, and signature.Trade Review"Behind Derrida's remarks on photography stands a vast philosophical knowledge, as well as a keen interest in contemporary media and technology. Richter's introduction admirably situates the discussion both with respect to Derrida's overall work and with reference to certain contemporary interpretations of photography. I can hardly imagine another discussion of photography that would display the same theoretical and philosophical breath and incisiveness that Derrida and his partners bring to bear on the subject."—Samuel Weber, European Graduate School"The interview that composes this exquisite little book demonstrates again why Derrida remains one of our most cherished resources. Suggesting that we did not have to wait for the invention of photography to learn what it can teach us about memory, inscription, death, mourning, and even love—this is why he can associate the medium with thought in general—Derrida's meditations not only comprehend and anticipate recent developments in reproductive technologies, but they also tell us why we must remain today as concerned with photography's past and present as with its future."—Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisA major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, Limited Inc and Signature Event Context, constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1967, when Derrida is 37 years old, Voice and Phenomenon appears at the same moment as Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference. All three books announce the new philosophical project called ""deconstruction"".

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Book SynopsisA new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other Jacques Derrida’s famously challenging book Glas puts the practice of philosophy and the very acts of writing and reading to the test. Formatted with parallel texts, its left column discusses G. W. F. Hegel and its right column engages Jean Genet, with numerous notes and interpolations in the margins. The resulting work, published for the first time in French in 1974, is a collage that practices theoretical thinking as a form of grafting. Presented here in an entirely new translation as Clang—its title resonating like the sound of an alarm or death knell—this book brilliantly juxtaposes Hegel’s totalizing, hierarchical system of thought with Genet’s autobiographical, carceral erotics. It innovatively forces two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each oTrade Review"Geoffrey Bennington and David Wills’s new translation deserves the highest praise. They have rendered this most Joycean of Derrida’s works with an endless tact and feel for English—an immense feat. Clang renews Glas’s lease on life under this new name, where new readers can now encounter it. How fortunate they are!"—Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book... Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library JournalTrade ReviewA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book. . . . Highly recommended. * —Choice *“One of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended. . . .” * —Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book... Highly recommended.-ChoiceOne of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended.-Library JournalTrade ReviewA wonderfully helpful and stimulating book. . . . Highly recommended. * —Choice *“One of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date. Highly recommended. . . .” * —Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together five encounters. They include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; structures of futurity and the "to come"; language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony and promising; the possibility of the impossible; and the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge.Trade Review"Includes previously untranslated writings by the French philosopher on the German Jewish poet." -The Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsShibboleth: For Paul Celan; "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text": Poetics and Politics of Witnessing; Language Does Not Belong: An Interview; The Majesty of the Present: Reading Celan's "The Meridian"; Rams: Uninterrupted Dialogue - between Two Infinities, the Poem

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Book SynopsisFor Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews by French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships he developed there over a forty year period. It is a profound interrogation of the relationship between philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship.Trade Review"Derrida did not plan to publish For Strasbourg, but it is an illuminating addition to his legacy," -Times Literary Supplement "This volume gathers some of Derrida's last texts, from 2002 to 2004, as he was engaged in fascinating discussions with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe about questions of sovereignty, event, responsibility, friendship, hospitality, singularity, community, the people, the human and animality, and his own relation to Heidegger and to the "Strasbourg school." More poignantly, Derrida develops extraordinary meditations on death, on his own death, on dying alone or together, on survival and disappearance, on eternity, immortality and finitude, returning to the notions of trace, spectrality, and mourning. This is a moving and extraordinarily rich volume, which reveals Derrida's final philosophical reflections." -- -Francois Raffoul Louisiana State UniversityTable of ContentsTranslators' Preface 1. The place name(s): Strasbourg 2. Discussion between Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy 3. Opening 4. Responsibility-Of the Sense to Come

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In light of the renewed debates about Heidegger and Nazism, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics is a timely book. Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe and Gadamer tackle Heidegger's thinking head on, providing new insights into his legacy." -- -Leonard Lawlor Penn State University

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements | xi Abbreviations | xiii Introduction (2020): Specters of Derrida by John D. Caputo | xix Part One The Villanova Roundtable: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida Part Two A Commentary: Deconstruction in a Nutshell 1. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: The Very Idea (!) | 31 The Aporetics of the Nutshell | 31 The Axiomatics of Indignation (The Very Idea!) | 36 Apologia: An Excuse for Violence | 44 Nutshells, Six of Them | 47 2. The Right to Philosophy | 49 Of Rights, Responsibilities, and a New Enlightenment | 49 Institutional Initiatives | 60 Between the "Department of Philosophy" and a Philosophy to Come | 69 3. Khora: Being Serious with Plato | 71 A Hoax | 71 Deconstruction is Serious Business | 74 An Exorbitant Method | 77 Khora | 82 Two Tropics of Negativity | 92 Differance: Khora is Its Surname | 96 4. Community Without Community | 106 Hospitality | 109 Identity Without Identity | 113 An Open Quasi-Community | 121 5. Justice, If Such a Thing Exists | 125 Doing Justice to Derrida | 125 Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice | 129 The Gift | 140 Dike: Derrida, Heidegger, and Dis-junctive Justice | 151 6. The Messianic: Waiting for the Future | 156 The Messianic Twist in Deconstruction | 156 Faith Without Religion | 164 The Messianic and the Messianisms: | 168 -Which Comes First? | 168 -When Will You Come? | 178 7. Re-Joyce, Say "Yes" | 181 Between Husserl and Joyce | 182 The Gramophone Effect | 184 Joyce's Signature | 189 Inaugurations: Encore | 198 A Concluding Amen | 201 Bibliography | 203 Index of Names | 209 Index of Subjects | 213

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Book SynopsisThinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard “How to judge—Jean-François Lyotard?” It is from this initial question that one of France’s most heralded philosophers of the twentieth century begins his essay on the origin of the law, of judgment, and the work of his colleague Jean-François Lyotard. If Jacques Derrida begins with the term préjugés, it is in part because of its impossibility to be rendered properly in other languages and also contain all its meanings: to pre-judge, to judge before judging, to hold prejudices, to know “how to judge,” and more still, to be already prejudged oneself. Striving to contain that which comes before the law, that is in front of the law and also prior to it, how to judge Jean-François Lyotard then becomes perhaps a beneficial attempt for Derrida to explore humanity’s rapport with judgment, origins, and naming. For how does one come to judge the author of the Differend? How does one abstain from judgment to accept the term préjugés as suspending judgment and at once as taking into account the impossibility of speaking before the law, prior to naming or judging? If this task indeed seems insurmountable, it is the site where Lyotard’s work itself is played out. Hence this sincere and intriguing essay presented by Jacques Derrida, published here for the first time in English.Trade Review"This excellent translation gives the whole text, parts of which had remained untranslated into English. It has discreet and careful annotation, giving full details for the references and quotations, something the original publication did not do, thus pinning down what was being encouraged to slip away."—French Studies

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Book SynopsisAl querer distinguir la ciencia de la ficción, finalmente se recurrirá al criterio de verdad. Y al preguntar: Qué es la verdad?, se volverá muy pronto, más allá de la adecuación o de la 'homoiosis', al valor de descubrimiento, de revelación, de desnudamiento de lo que es, tal como es, en su ser. Quién pretenderá entonces que 'Los nuevos trajes del emperador' no ponen en escena la verdad misma? La posibilidad de lo verdadero como desnudamiento? Y desnudamiento del rey, del amo, del padre, de los súbditos? Y si la vergüenza consiguiente tuviese algo que ver con la mujer o con la castración, la figura del rey desempeñaría aquí todos los papeles.

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Book SynopsisEste ensayo trata sobre las relaciones entre el derecho y la justicia, pero también entre el poder, la autoridad y la violencia. La justicia no se agota nunca en las representaciones y las instituciones jurídicas que intentan ajustarse a ella. Lo justo trasciende siempre lo jurídico, pero no hay justicia que no deba inscribirse en un derecho, en un sistema y en una historia de la legalidad, en la política y en el Estado. No quita que, a su vez, el derecho prime sobre la fuerza; este es su deber, no hay derecho que no implique por sí mismo su aplicación, una técnica y, en consecuencia, la posibilidad de la guerra. Lo recuerda Kant: no hay derecho sin coacción. Lo que pretende tener fuerza de ley inscribe así la apelación a la fuerza en el concepto mismo de su autoridad. El riesgo de tiranía acecha ya desde el origen de la ley.Recuperando una expresión de Montaigne, Pascal hablaba de un fundamento místico de la autoridad: aquel que lleva a ésta a su principio, la aniquila. Y esta aniq

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An excellent introduction to Derrida's remarkable contribution to literary studies comprising much of Derrida's writing on writers such as Shakespeare, Mallarme, Joyce and Kafka.

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Book SynopsisEl nombre de Derrida está estrechamente vinculado al término deconstrucción, idea que propugna la disolución de fronteras estrictas entre filosofía y literatura. Se convierte así en una estrategia de lectura, en un mecanismo textual por encima del autor y del texto.

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