Seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction,
address the millennial issue of our "futures," "promises,"
"prophecies," "projects," and "possibilities"--including the
possibility that there may be no "future" at all. Speculative in
every sense, these essays are marked by a common concern for the
act of reading as it is practiced in the work of Jacques Derrida.
The contributors--Geoffrey Bennington, Paul Davies, Peter Fenves,
Werner Hamacher, Jean-Michel Rabate, Elisabeth Weber, and Jacques
Derrida himself--study a range of authors, including Pascal, Kant,
Hegel, Leibniz, Marx, Benjamin, Koyre, Arendt, and Lacan.
These readings are neither prescriptive, definitive, nor
definitional. Each essay seeks out, in the work it studies, those
moments that pronounce or propose futures that enable speculation,
moments in which the speculator has to make promises. As Derrida
says in his essay, "Between lying and acting, acting in politics,
manifesting one's own freedom through action, transforming facts,
anticipating the future, there is something like an essential
affinity. . . . The lie is the future." Or, in the words of Werner
Hamacher, "The futurity of language, its inherent promising
capacity, is the ground--but a ground with no solidity
whatever--for all present and past experiences, meanings, and
figures which could communicate themselves in it."
These essays, though arising from deconstruction, point out the
ways in which deconstruction has yet to occur, and they do so by
scanning the unattainable horizons marked off by thinkers at the
forefront of our modern era.
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