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48Derrida and politicsIn Tom Cohen (ed.), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader, Cambridge University Press. pp. 193--212. 2001.
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9VeilsStanford University Press. 2001.This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Hélène Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir."
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1Sovereign stupidity and autoimmunityIn Pheng Cheah & Suzanne Guerlac (eds.), Derrida and the time of the political, Duke University Press. 2009.
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Mosaic fragment, if Derrida were an EgyptianIn David Wood (ed.), Derrida: a critical reader, Blackwell. pp. 97--199. 1992.
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78HandshakeDerrida Today 1 (2): 167-184. 2008.How might Derrida be said to greet Jean-Luc Nancy in Le Toucher? What kind of handshake does he offer? Derrida explicitly mentions the handshake at the very centre of his book, in the tangent devoted to Merleau-Ponty. A reading of this moment reveals an exemplary case of what happens when Derrida reads apparently ‘fraternal’ texts, and opens up further levels of difference. What then if we consider Nancy's response to Derrida, when the recipient of the handshake shakes back? By examining Nancy's…Read more
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Ces Petits Differends': Lyotard and HoraceIn Andrew E. Benjamin (ed.), Judging Lyotard, Routledge. 1992.
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68The Fall of SovereigntyEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2): 395-406. 2006.Reflecting on the fall or failure of sovereignty, this essay considers Derrida’s recent work under the heading of auto-immunity, and develops some consequences of that work, first of all in the political sphere (especially around democracy), but also some more general consequences around conceptuality itself.
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47Jacques Derrida: Geoffrey Bennington y Jacques Derrida (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1993.This extraordinary book offers a clear and compelling biography of Jacques Derrida along with one of Derrida's strangest and most unexpected texts. Geoffrey Bennington's account of Derrida leads the reader through the philosopher's familiar yet widely misunderstood work on language and writing to the less familiar themes of signature, sexual difference, law, and affirmation. In an unusual and unprecedented "dialogue," Derrida responds to Bennington's text by interweaving Bennington's text with s…Read more
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The Inhuman. Reflections on TimeRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 183 (1): 136-136. 1993.
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61Post-structuralism and the question of history (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1987.Recent developments in literary theory, such as structuralism and deconstruction, have come under attack for neglecting history, while historically-based approaches have been criticized for failing to take account of the problems inherent in their methodological foundations. This collection of essays is unique in that it focuses on the relation between post-structuralism and historical (especially Marxist) literary theory and criticism. The volume includes a deconstructive reading of Marx, essay…Read more
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