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In this book, Jacques Derrida confronts two pressing problems: the explosive tensions between refugee and asylum rights and the ethic of the hospitality; and the dilemma of reconciliation and amnesy where the bloody traumas of history demand forgiveness. Throughout the book, Derrida makes use of compelling examples to argue that true forgiveness consists in forgiving the unforgivable. These include the emotive issue of 'open cities' where migrants may seek sanctuary from persecution and exile, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa, and ethnic strife in France and Algeria. Derrida asks whether, in the face of these problems, cosmopolitanism and forgiveness are still possible. The book includes a short preface by Simon Critchley and Richard Kearney, introducing the arguments of the two essays that make up this book.
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Paper Machine (Hardcover)
Jacques Derrida; Translated by Rachel Bowlby
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This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for
writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and
intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper
and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the
archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for
virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a
virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation
of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed
his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret,
pardon, perjury, state sovereignty, hospitality, the university,
animal rights, capital punishment, the question of what sort of
mediatized world is replacing the print epoch, and the question of
the "wholly other." Derrida is remarkable at making seemingly
occasional pieces into part of a complexly interconnected
trajectory of thought.
First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close
association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a
number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of
literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau,
Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning
Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new
interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction,
politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an
introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of
literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These
essays examine the place and function of literature in Western
culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a
significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging
form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking
about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of
interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary
theory and criticism and continental philosophy.
"The Future of Hegel "is one of the most important recent books on
Hegel, a philosopher who has had a crucial impact on the shape of
continental philosophy. Published here in English for the first
time, it includes a substantial preface by Jacques Derrida in which
he explores the themes and conclusions of Malabou's book.
"The Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic"
restores Hegel's rich and complex concepts of time and temporality
to contemporary philosophy. It examines Hegel's concept of time,
relating it to perennial topics in philosophy such as substance,
accident and the identity of the subject. Catherine Malabou also
contrasts her account of Hegelian temporality with the
interpretation given by Heidegger in "Being and Time," arguing that
it is the concept of "plasticity" that best describes Hegel's
theory of temporality. The future is understood not simply as a
moment in time, but as something malleable and constantly open to
change through our interpretation.
"The Future of Hegel "also develops Hegel's preoccupation with the
history of Greek thought and Christianity and explores the role of
theology in Hegel's thought.
Essential reading for those interested in Hegel and contemporary
continental philosophy, "The Future of Hegel "will also be
fascinating to those interested in the ideas of Heidegger and
Derrida.
In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French
thinker Jacques Derrida. He called the new process
"deconstruction". Rewriting the ways in which we use language and
literature, deconstruction affected every form of intellectual
thought, from literary criticism to popular culture. It also
criticized the entire tradition of Western philosophy, from Plato
to Bataille.
Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phenomenological and Heideggerian influence on the Continental tradition, have hitherto generally been viewed as mutually exclusive philosophical language games. The purpose of this volume is to bring deconstruction and pragmatism into critical confrontation with one another through staging a debate between Derrida and Rorty, itself based on discussions that took place at the College International de Philosophie in Paris in 1993. The ground for this debate is layed out in introductory papers by Simon Critchley and Ernesto Laclau, and the remainder of the volume records Derrida's and Rorty's responses to each other's work. Chantal Mouffe gives an overview of the stakes of this debate in a helpful preface. eBook available with sample pages: 0203431480
Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences of post-war developments in Anglo-American philosophy, and Derridian deconstruction, which extends and troubles the phonomenological and Heideggerian influence on the Continental tradition, have hitherto generally been viewed as mutually exclusive philosophical language games. The purpose of this volume is to bring deconstruction and pragmatism into critical confrontation with one another through staging a debate between Derrida and Rorty, itself based on discussions that took place at the College International de Philosophie in Paris in 1993. The ground for this debate is layed out in introductory papers by Simon Critchley and Ernesto Laclau, and the remainder of the volume records Derrida's and Rorty's responses to each other's work. Chantal Mouffe gives an overview of the stakes of this debate in a helpful preface.
An excellent introduction to Derrida's remarkable contribution to literary studies comprising much of Derrida's writing on writers such as Shakespeare, Mallarmé, Joyce and Kafka.
Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the
20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of
friendship and its political consequences, past and future in order
to explore invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and
more inclusive democracy.
"Psyche: Inventions of the Other" is the first publication in
English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida
published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. Advancing his reflection
on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative
theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion, Volume II also
carries on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and
writers: De Certeau, Heidegger, Kant, Lacoue-Labarthe, Mandela,
Rosenszweig, and Shakespeare, among others. Included in this volume
are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example,
"Geschlecht I: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference,"
"Geschlecht II: Heidegger's Hand," "How to Avoid Speaking:
Denials," and ""Interpretations at War" Kant, the Jew, the
German").
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical
recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The
main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking
sides." While Helene 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 confrontation-for example about the meaning of "might"
and "omnipotence," and a philosophical and philological analysis of
the crypts within the vast oeuvre of Helene 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 thinkers of
our time.
Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point,
Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the
philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to
Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ground-breaking book Corpus he discusses in
detail. Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl,
Didier Franck, Martin Heidegger, Francoise Dastur, and Jean-Louis
Chretien are discussed, as are Rene Descartes, Diderot, Maine de
Biran, Felix Ravaisson, Immanuel Kant, Sigmund Freud, and others.
The scope of Derrida's deliberations makes this book a virtual
encyclopedia of the philosophy of touch (and the body). Derrida
gives special consideration to the thinking of touch in
Christianity and, in discussing Jean-Luc Nancy's essay
"Deconstruction of Christianity," devotes a section of the book to
the sense of touch in the Gospels. Another section concentrates on
"the flesh," as treated by Merleau-Ponty and others in his wake.
Derrida's critique of intuitionism, notably in the phenomenological
tradition, is one of the guiding threads of the book. On Touching
includes a wealth of notes that provide an extremely useful
bibliographical resource. Personal and detached all at once, this
book, one of the first published in English translation after
Jacques Derrida's death, serves as a useful and poignant
retrospective on the work of the philosopher. A tribute by Jean-Luc
Nancy, written a day after Jacques Derrida's death, is an added
feature.
Completing 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 therefore invaluable
for the light it throws upon an underappreciated aspect of
Derrida's own engagement, both philosophical and political, in
struggles against the stifling of philosophical research and
teaching. As a founding member of the Research Group on the
Teaching of Philosophy and as one of the conveners of the Estates
General of Philosophy, Derrida was at the forefront of the struggle
to preserve and extend the teaching of philosophy as a distinct
discipline, in secondary education and beyond, in the face of
conservative government education reforms in France. As one of the
founders of the College International de Philosophie, he worked to
provide a space for research in and around philosophy that was not
accepted or legitimated in other institutions. Documenting and
reflecting upon these engagements, Eyes of the University brings
together some of the most important and incisive of Derrida's
works.
Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology,
psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire
European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the
face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy,
literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would
have previously considered improper. Forty years after Of
Grammatology first appeared in English, Derrida still ignites
controversy, thanks in part to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's careful
translation, which attempted to capture the richness and complexity
of the original. This fortieth anniversary edition, where a mature
Spivak retranslates with greater awareness of Derrida's legacy,
also includes a new afterword by her which supplements her
influential original preface. Judith Butler has added an
introduction. All references in the work have been updated. One of
contemporary criticism's most indispensable works, Of Grammatology
is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.
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Of Hospitality (Hardcover)
Jacques Derrida, Anne Dufourmantelle; Translated by Rachel Bowlby
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These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and
"Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of
seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January
1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become something
of an institution over the years, the place where he presents the
ongoing evolution of his thought in a remarkable combination of
thoroughly mapped-out positions, sketches of new material, and
exchanges with students and interlocutors.
As has become a pattern in Derrida's recent work, the form of this
presentation is a self-conscious enactment of its content. The book
consists of two texts on facing pages. "Invitation" by Anne
Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course
originates in a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida's
"response" on the right. The interaction between them not only
enacts the "hospitality" under discussion, but preserves something
of the rhythms of teaching.
The volume also characteristically combines careful readings of
canonical texts and philosophical topics with attention to the most
salient events in the contemporary world, using "hospitality" as a
means of rethinking a range of political and ethical situations.
"Hospitality" is viewed as a question of what arrives at the
borders, in the initial surprise of contact with an other, a
stranger, a foreigner. For example, Antigone is revisited in light
of the question of impossible mourning; "Oedipus at Colonus" is
read via concerns that also apply to teletechnology; the trial of
Socrates is brought into conjunction with the televised funeral of
Francois Mitterrand.
This 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. The conjunction of
an ethics of pure prescription with the idea of an infinite and
absolute hospitality confronts us with the most pressing political,
juridical, and institutional concerns of our time. What, then, is
an ethics and what is a politics of hospitality? And what, if it
ever "is, " would be a hospitality surpassing any ethics and any
politics we know?
As always, Derrida raises these questions in the most explicit of
terms, moving back and forth between philosophical argument and the
political discussion of immigration laws, peace, the state of
Israel, xenophobia--reminding us with every move that thinking is
not a matter of neutralizing abstraction, but a gesture of
hospitality for what happens and still may happen.
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer,
and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a
large audience to discuss the philosophical and political
implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. This event took place
in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier,
Heidegger, as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of
the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled "The University in the
New Reich." Heidegger's involvement in Nazism has always been, and
will remain, an indelible scandal, but what is its real relation to
his work and thought? And what are the responsibilities of those
who read this work, who analyze and elaborate this thought?
Conversely, what is at stake in the wholesale dismissal of this
important but compromised twentieth-century philosopher? In 1988,
in the wake of the recent publication of Victor Farias's Heidegger
and Nazism, and of the heated debates that ensued, these questions
had become more pressing than ever. The reflections presented by
three of the most prominent of Heidegger's readers, improvised in
French and transcribed here, were an attempt to approach these
questions before a broad public, but with a depth of knowledge and
a complex sense of the questions at issue that have been often
lacking in the press. Ranging over two days and including exchanges
with one another and with the audience, the discussions pursued by
these major thinkers remain highly relevant today, especially
following the publication of Heidegger's already notorious "Black
Notebooks," which have added another chapter to the ongoing debates
over this contested figure. The present volume recalls a highly
charged moment in this history, while also drawing the debate
toward its most essential questions.
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than
Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at
Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine
sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the cole Normale Sup rieure, these
lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms
with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time.
They provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of
Derrida's primary conceptual concerns--indeed, it is here that he
first uses, with some hesitation, the word "deconstruction"--but an
analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to
readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy.
Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously
difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and
acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger's prose.
At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat
unfamiliar to French readers, and Being and Time had only been
partially translated into French. Here Derrida mostly uses his own
translations, giving his own reading of Heidegger that directly
challenges the French existential reception initiated earlier by
Sartre. He focuses especially on Heidegger's Destruktion (which
Derrida would translate both into "solicitation" and
"deconstruction") of the history of ontology, and indeed of
ontology as such, concentrating on passages that call for a
rethinking of the place of history in the question of being, and
developing a radical account of the place of metaphoricity in
Heidegger's thinking. This is a rare window onto Derrida's
formative years, and in it we can already see the philosopher we've
come to recognize--one characterized by a bravura of exegesis and
an inventiveness of thought that are particularly and singularly
his.
For Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews about
the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships Jacques
Derrida developed there over a period of some forty years. Written
just months before his death, the opening essay, "The Place
Name(s): Strasbourg," recounts in detail, and in very moving terms,
Derrida's deep attachment to this French city on the border between
France and Germany. More than just a personal narrative, however,
the essay is a profound interrogation of the relationship between
philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and
friendship. As such, it raises a series of philosophical,
political, and ethical questions that might all be placed under the
aegis of what Derrida once called "philosophical nationalities and
nationalism." The other three texts included in the book are long
interviews/conversations between Derrida and his two principal
interlocutors in Strasbourg, Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe
Lacoue-Labarthe. These interviews are significant both for the
themes they focus on (language, politics, friendship, death, life
after death, and so on) and for what they reveal about Derrida's
relationships to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe. Filled with sharp
insights into one anothers' work and peppered with personal
anecdotes and humor, the interviews bear witness to the
decades-long intellectual friendships of these three important
contemporary thinkers. This collection thus stands as a reminder of
and testimony to Derrida's unique relationship to Strasbourg and to
the two thinkers most closely associated with that city.
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Parages (Paperback)
Jacques Derrida; Edited by John P. Leavey; Translated by Tom Conley, James Hulbert, Avital Ronell
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"Parages" brings together four essays by Derrida on the fictions of
Maurice Blanchot. Three of the essays--"Living On," "Title To Be
Specified," and "The Law of Genre," are by now canonical. The
fourth, ""Pa"ce Not("s")" as well as Derrida's 1986 introduction to
the French edition of the book, appear here in English for the
first time. This was a breakthrough publication in the analysis of
Blanchot, a notoriously difficult writer. It is safe to say Derrida
contributed much to that writer's reputation in both French and
English, always insisting on the philosophical pertinence of
Blanchot's work to any discussion of the relationship between
literature and critical thought. Through patient citation, and an
ample collocation and readings of Blanchot's various motifs,
Derrida explores a variety of questions, including the limits of
genre, the procedure of crossing out, and the evocation of a
non-dialectical and non-privative negativity. The book marks a
crucial stage in Derrida's itinerary and provides a context for his
later writings on apophatics in such works as "On the Name" (SUP,
1995) and his response to Heidegger on death in "Aporias" (SUP,
1993).
"Psyche: Inventions of the Other" is the first publication in
English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida
published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. Advancing his reflection
on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative
theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion, Volume II also
carries on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and
writers: De Certeau, Heidegger, Kant, Lacoue-Labarthe, Mandela,
Rosenszweig, and Shakespeare, among others. Included in this volume
are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example,
"Geschlecht I: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference,"
"Geschlecht II: Heidegger's Hand," "How to Avoid Speaking:
Denials," and ""Interpretations at War" Kant, the Jew, the
German").
Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English
of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in
two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his
reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation,
literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others.
The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a
number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man,
Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge.
Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal
essays (for example, "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 here in English for the first time.
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say . . . is Derrida's literary critical
recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The
main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking
sides." While Helene 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 confrontation-for example about the meaning of "might"
and "omnipotence," and a philosophical and philological analysis of
the crypts within the vast oeuvre of Helene 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 thinkers of
our time.
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