Encountering Derrida Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction

by Morgan Wortham, Simon; Weiner, Allison

• ISBN13: 9780826498939
• ISBN10: 0826498930
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Encountering Derridaexplores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers, past and present, in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. The book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future. This impressive collection of essays from the world's leading Derrida scholars re-evaluates Derrida's legacy and looks forward to the possible futures of deconstruction by confronting various challenges to Derrida's thought. Collectively, the essays argue that Derrida must be read alongsideothers, an approach that produces some surprising new accounts of this challenging critical thinker.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Foundations	p. 10
'Rather than Nothing': Derrida, Literature and the Resistance of Nihilism	p. 21
Accounterability	p. 33
'Don't Count Me In': Derrida's Refraining	p. 45
Reading Over a Globalized World	p. 58
Counterchange: Derrida's Poetry	p. 68
Disagreement as (Possible) Event: Derrida contre de Man	p. 82
The Counterpromise: Derrida on the Instant of Blanchot's Death	p. 95
Derrida's Transcendental Contraband: Impossible Acts	p. 106
The Entropics of Discourse: The 'Materiality' of Affect between Marx and Derrida	p. 121
The Grammar of Deconstruction	p. 137
Dislocating Derrida: Badiou, the Unthought and the Justice of Multiplicity	p. 152
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 202
Index	p. 211
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