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25Rethinking 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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64HandshakeDerrida 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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64The 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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59Jacques 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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60Post-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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71Interrupting DerridaRoutledge. 2000.One of the most significant contemporary thinkers in continental philosophy, Jacques Derrida’s work continues to attract heated commentary among philosophers, literary critics, social and cultural theorists, architects and artists. This major new work by world renowned Derrida scholar and translator, Geoffrey Bennington, presents incisive new readings of both Derrida and interpretations of his work. Part one sets out Derrida’s work as a whole and examines its relevance to, and ‘interruption’ of,…Read more
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FoundationsIn Simon Wortham & Allison Weiner (eds.), Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction, Continuum. 2007.
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2The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (edited book)Stanford University Press. 1991.Om postmodernismen og en videreudvikling af forfatterens teorier med eksempler fra filosofi og malerkunst.
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49Rigor; or, stupid uselessnessSouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (s1): 20-38. 2012.In his seminars on the death penalty, Derrida consistently describes Kant's arguments in favor of capital punishment as “rigorous” and explicitly relates that rigor to the mechanisms of execution and the subsequent rigor mortis of the corpse. ‘Rigor’ has also often been a contested term in descriptions of deconstruction: different commentators have either deplored or celebrated the presence or the absence of rigor in Derrida's work. Derrida himself uses the term a good deal throughout his career…Read more
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21Legislations: the politics of deconstructionVerso. 1994.Introduction Someone comes and says something. Without really needing to think, I understand what is said, refer it without difficulty to familiar codes, ...
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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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