Philosophy, Language and the Political

The Conference and the Book

Preface: Against the Call for Blood, the Call for Critique

Thematic Introduction: Philosophical Critique and the Politico-Linguistic Aspects



The Invention of the Idiom: The Event of the Untranslatable


JOUIS ANNIVERSAIRE! ("scenes of inner life" for the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Derrida)


Can a Toolbox Go to War? The Political Legacy of Poststructuralism


Juergen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as "Good Europeans"


Cryptonymy: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Politics


(De)constitutive Theories of Language and the Politics of Change


Resisting the Work of Mourning: Survival and Resurrection of Jacques Derrida


Fear of Spinoza: Derrida as Reader of the Theological-Political Treatise


Not This, Not That...: Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism


'Being-outside and Yet Belonging': Political Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben


Aporias of Ethics: Looking at the 'Wholly Other'


Of Shame and Censure: Is An 'other' Politics Possible?


Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on "Feminine Writing"


Ecce Animot: Notes on the Animal Stigmatext


Learning to Live with Specters: Hauntology, Memory and Language in Specters of Marx


De-cision: Resisting the 'Tragic' and Surviving the Subject


Wounding the Self-Writing the Other


Remembering "The Purloined Letter": Letters from the Event Horizon


Foucault: Optics and the Folding of Light


This is (not) a Pipe: from Magritte to Bansky



List of Contributors