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 Hélène Cixous and Judith Butler.Contributors. Étienne Balibar, Geoffrey Bennington, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Hélène Cixous, Rodolphe Gasché, Suzanne Guerlac, Marcel Hénaff, Martin Jay, Anne Norton, Jacques Rancière, Soraya Tlatli, Satoshi Ukai
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A collection assessing the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics.
Acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1 Part I. Openings Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41 Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57 The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74 Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97 Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114 Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135 "Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158 Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177 Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196 Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215 Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235 The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255 Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274 Part V. Afterword Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291 Bibliography 307 Contributors 323 Index 327
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“[An] indispensable collection. . . What is particularly remarkable about this collection is the fact that its introduction is one of the very finest, most penetrating, reliable, and lucid presentations of Derrida’s thought in general to have been published to date. This single fact merits inclusion of this volume in every serious general and academic collection; the introduction by Cheah and Guerlac will guide readers to the appropriate texts in Derrida’s oeuvre and to the relevant essays in the volume. Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above.” - N. Lukacher, Choice
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Assesses the implications of Derrida's thought for contemporary political theory and politics

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9780822343509
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2009-01-16
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Duke University Press
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640 gr
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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352

Biographical note

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.

Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize.