Derrida from now on / Michael Naas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naas, Michael.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques.;Philosophy, Modern.;Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the continuing significance of his work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory. If Derrida's thought is to remain relevant for us today, it must be at once understood in its original context and uprooted and transplanted elsewhere. Michael Naas thus begins with an analysis of Derrida's attachment to the French language, to Europe, and to European secular thought, before turning to Derrida's long engagement with the American context and to the ways in which deconstruction allows us to rethink the history, identity, and promise of post-9/11 America. Taking as its point of departure several of Derrida's later works (from "Faith and Knowledge" and The Work of Mourning to Rogues and Learning to Live Finally), the book demonstrates how Derrida's analyses of the phantasms of sovereignty, the essential autoimmunity of democracy or religion, or the impossible mourning of the nation-state can help us to understand what is happening today in American culture, literature, and politics. Though Derrida's thought has always lived on only by being translated elsewhere, his disappearance will have driven home this necessity with a new force and an unprecedented urgency. Derrida From Now On is an effect of this force and an attempt to respond to this urgency.

Contents:

Abbreviations of works by Jacques Derrida

Introduction: Benedictions-"traces in the history of the French language"

Alors, qui etes-vous?: Jacques Derrida and the question of hospitality

Analogy and anagram: deconstruction as deconstruction of the as

Derrida's Laicite

A last call for "Europe"

Derrida's America

Derrida at the wheel

"One nation ... indivisible": of autoimmunity, democracy, and the nation-state

Autonomy, autoimmunity, and the stretch limo: from Derrida's Rogue State to DeLillo's Cosmopolis

History's remains: of memory, mourning, and the event(s) of 9/11

Comme si, comme ca: following Derrida on the phantasms of the self, the state, and a Sovereign God

Lifelines

Conclusion: the world over.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612698507

9780823235162

0823235165

9780823247110

0823247112

9781282698505

1282698508

9780823237555

0823237559

9780823229604

0823229602

OCLC:

727645698