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For What Tomorrow . . . - A Dialogue (Hardcover, Second)
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For What Tomorrow . . . - A Dialogue (Hardcover, Second)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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"For what tomorrow will be, no one knows," writes Victor Hugo. This
dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by the historian Elisabeth
Roudinesco, brings together two longtime friends who share a common
history and an intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are
often different, they have many common reference points:
psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have
come to be known outside France as "post-structuralist." Beginning
with a revealing glance back at the French intellectual scene over
the past forty years, Derrida and Roudinesco go on to address a
number of major social and political issues. Their extraordinarily
wide-ranging discussion covers topics such as immigration,
hospitality, gender equality, and "political correctness"; the
disordering of the traditional family, same-sex unions, and
reproductive technologies; the freedom of the "subject" over and
against "scientism"; violence against animals; the haunting specter
of communism and revolution; the present and future of
anti-Semitism (as well as that which marked Derrida's own history)
and the hazardous politics of criticizing the state of Israel; the
principled abolition of the death penalty; and, to conclude, a
chapter "in praise of psychoanalysis." These exchanges not only
help to situate Derrida's thought within the milieu out of which it
grew, they also show more clearly than ever how this thought,
impelled by a deep concern for justice, can be brought to bear on
the social and political issues of our day. What emerges here above
all, far from an abstract, apolitical discourse, is a call to take
responsibility-for the inheritance of a past, for the singularities
of the present, and for the unforeseeable tasks of the future.
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