Derrida and the Time of the Political
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2009
352 pages
978-0-8223-9009-1 (ISBN)
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A collection assessing the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics.
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Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1
Part I. Openings
Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41
Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology
Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57
The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74
Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97
Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114
Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe
European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135
"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158
Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177
Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196
Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics
The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215
Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235
The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255
Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274
Part V. Afterword
Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291
Bibliography 307
Contributors 323
Index 327
1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1
Part I. Openings
Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41
Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology
Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57
The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74
Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97
Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114
Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe
European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135
"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158
Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177
Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196
Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics
The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215
Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235
The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255
Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274
Part V. Afterword
Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291
Bibliography 307
Contributors 323
Index 327
