Derrida and the Time of the Political

by Cheah, Pheng; Guerlac, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9780822343509
• ISBN10: 0822343509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

""Derrida and the Time of the Political" undoes once and for all the unproductive opposition between deconstruction and politics that has dominated the United States academy. This is a stellar collection. The pieces are diversified, not a commemorative gesture but a critical engagement. Careful theoretical parsing combines with detailed political awareness to make this book an authoritative document for understanding not only the later Derrida and political deconstruction but the problems and engagements of our time."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political

Openings

Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You

The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology

Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser

The Untimely Secret of Democracy

Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity

Sovereign Hesitations

Responsibilities within and without Europe

European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

"Call Me Ishmael"

Algeria as an Archive

Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny

Between Ethics and Politics

The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time

Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics

The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer)

Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida

Afterword

Finishing, Starting

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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