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Book SynopsisExplores the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself; includes chapters which engage with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies.
Trade ReviewThis wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. -- Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose. -- David Campbell, Durham University This wide-ranging encounter with Jacques Derrida's legacy is consistently innovative, discerning, and challenging. Taken as a whole, the collection is both a fitting tribute and an original contribution to critical political philosophy. Far from the hackneyed responses that greeted Derrida's passing, this volume negotiates the profound legacy of his path-breaking thought for ethics, politics and global issues. Through a series of essays -- some of them provocative, all of them original -- this volume rightly understands that fidelity to Derrida's memory is best expressed in terms of a critical engagement that both confronts and draws inspiration from the many challenges his work continues to pose.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida; Ludovic Glorieux and Indira Hasimbegovic; I Future of Deconstruction; 1. Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic; Christopher Norris; 2. The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics; Richard Beardsworth; 3. Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction; Alex Thomson; 4. Force [of] Transformation; Michael Dillon; II Interrupting the Same; 5. Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; Maja Zehfuss; 6. The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion; Josef Ansorge; 7. Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision; Dan Bulley; 8. Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha; April Biccum; III Following/ Breaking; 9. Sartre and Derrida: the promises of the subject; Christina Howells; 10. What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy; Jenny Edkins; 11. 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'; Daniel Watt; 12. Derrida vs. Habermas Revisited; Lasse Thomassen; Conclusions: The Im/Possibility of Closure; Madeleine Fagan and Marie Suetsugu.
