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29Rethinking the Linguistic Turn: Current Anxieties in Intellectual HistoryRethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language.History and Criticism.Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives.Post-Structuralism and the Question of History (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (3): 519. 1988.
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11A Review of A ReviewRethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, LanguageHistory and CriticismModern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New PerspectivePost-Structuralism and the Question of HistoryThe Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Respresentation (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (4): 677. 1988.
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18Kant’s Open SecretTheory, Culture and Society 28 (7-8): 26-40. 2011.It is argued that Kant’s claimed reconciliation of politics and ethics in the Appendix to ‘Perpetual Peace’ founders on an irreducible element of secrecy that no amount of ‘publicity’ could ever dissipate. This shows up figuratively in images of veiling, and more especially in the paradoxical ‘very transparent veil’ associated with British politics in a footnote to ‘The Contest of Faculties’. This figure suggests that the structure of the ‘public’ itself involves a kind of transcendental secrecy…Read more
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9Introduction: posing the questionIn Derek Attridge, Geoffrey Bennington & Robert Young (eds.), Post-Structuralism and the Question of History, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--11. 1987.
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13Research and its legitimation through performativityIn Nico Stehr & Reiner Grundmann (eds.), Knowledge: Critical Concepts, Routledge. pp. 2--209. 2005.
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3The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2009.When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With _The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1_, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. _The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1_ launches the series with Derrida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty.…Read more
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2Mosai'que. Politiken und Grenzen der DekonstruktionIn Michael Wetzel & Jean-Michel Rabaté (eds.), Ethik der Gabe: Denken Nach Jacques Derrida, De Gruyter. pp. 269-284. 1993.
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33For Better and for Worse (There Again...)Diacritics 38 (1/2): 92-103. 2008.This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a “democracy to come” from the Kantian ideal, Bennington links it to Aristotle's insistence upon multiplicity and to a thinking of deviance and perversion, an appropriately deconstructive logic for thinking an absence of telos in democracy to come
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The Truth in Painting (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1987."The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics, partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship. The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesth…Read more
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8Derrida’s ArchiveTheory, Culture and Society 31 (7-8): 111-119. 2014.It is argued that attempts to archive Derrida’s work and treat it in the standard terms of intellectual history are short-circuited by arguments within his work that undermine the coherence of the concept of archive as it is deployed in such historical descriptions. Drawing on a range of Derrida’s early and late writings and more especially his readings of Freud, it is suggested that Derrida’s claim that psychoanalysis ought to provoke a revision of the terms historians use to discuss it is a fo…Read more
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3The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume Ii (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2011.Following on from _The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I_, this book extends Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002–2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger’s 1929–1930 course _The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, _and Daniel Defoe’s _Robinson Crusoe. _As he moves back and forth between the two works, Derrida p…Read more
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5Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1989."I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman. "Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism..... This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how…Read more
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In the eventIn Robert Eaglestone & Simon Glendinning (eds.), Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy, Routledge. 2008.
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15For Better and for Worse (There Again...)Diacritics 38 (1): 92-103. 2008.This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a “democracy to come” from the Kantian ideal, Bennington links it to Aristotle's insistence upon multiplicity and to a thinking of deviance and perversion, an appropriately deconstructive logic for thinking an absence of telos in democracy to come.
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8VeilsStanford 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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47Derrida and politicsIn Tom Cohen (ed.), Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: A Critical Reader, Cambridge University Press. pp. 193--212. 2001.
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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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70HandshakeDerrida 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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65The 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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