An intellectual event, "Derrida and the Time of the Political"
marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that
leading scholars have come together to critically assess the
philosopher's political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the
import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread
among American critics since Derrida's work became widely available
in English in the late 1970s. While Derrida expounded political and
ethical themes from the late 1980s on, there has been relatively
little Anglo-American analysis of that later work or its relation
to the philosopher's entire corpus. Filling a critical gap, this
volume provides multiple perspectives on the political turn in
Derrida's work, showing how deconstruction bears on political
theory and real-world politics. The contributors include
distinguished scholars of deconstruction whose thinking developed
in close proximity to Derrida's, as well as leading political
theorists and philosophers who engage Derrida's thought from
further afield.
The volume opens with a substantial introduction in which Pheng
Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac survey Derrida's entire corpus and
position his later work in relation to it. The remaining essays
address the concerns that arise out of Derrida's analysis of
politics and the conditions of the political, such as the meaning
and scope of democracy, the limits of sovereignty, the relationship
between the ethical and the political, the nature of
responsibility, the possibility for committed political action, the
implications of deconstructive thought for non-Western politics,
and the future of nationalism in an era of globalization and
declining state sovereignty. The collection is framed by original
contributions from Helene Cixous and Judith Butler.
"Contributors." etienne Balibar, Geoffrey Bennington, Wendy
Brown, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Helene Cixous, Rodolphe Gasche,
Suzanne Guerlac, Marcel Henaff, Martin Jay, Anne Norton, Jacques
Ranciere, Soraya Tlatli, Satoshi Ukai
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