Derrida : negotiating the legacy / edited by Madeleine Fagan ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fagan, Madeleine, Author.

Contributor:

Fagan, Madeleine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself; includes chapters which engage with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida; The Unease of Inheriting; The gift of inheritance; Deconstruction as inheritance; Politics of Surviving; With one who is not present; Where there is one, there is always more than one; In the Spirit of Negotiation; Notes; I - Future of Deconstruction; 1 - Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic; Introduction; Notes; 2 - The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics; Introduction

Contemporary Critical Philosophy and The Recent Rapprochement Between Habermas and DerridaOur Historical Actuality, its Challenge, and the End of the Post-modern; Deconstruction, Post-Kantian Modernity and Derrida's Response to World Politics; Derrida's Hesitation and the Development of Sovereignty; Priorities and Projects; Philosophically; Politically; Disciplinarily; Conclusion; Notes; 3 - Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction; Monstrous Democracy; Algerian Deconstruction; Islam and the Future; Notes; 4 - Force [of] Transformation; The Messianic; Political theology

The Aporia of JusticeNotes; II - Interrupting the Same; 5 - Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; The 'War on Terror' and Second World War Memories; Politics of Memory: Critical Objections; Derrida's Memory; Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; Conclusion; Notes; 6 - The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion; Introduction; Jacques Derrida; Samuel Huntington; Kenneth Waltz; Francis Fukuyama; Supplement: By Way of Conclusion; Notes; 7 - Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision

Calculating the Incalculable: Avoidance of the WorstNegotiation and its Implications; Avoiding assurance; Negotiating the non-negotiable; Retaining risk; Inventing the (im)possible; The (un)ethical and the (ir)responsible; Conclusion: Negotiating Assassination; Notes; 8 - Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A Practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha; Introduction; Post-colonial Theory and the Legacy of Derrida; The Conscious Exploitation of Ambivalence - Reading Diversity Training through Homi Bhabha; Conclusion; Notes; III - Following/Breaking

9 - Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the SubjectNotes; 10 - What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy; Introduction; Salgado's children; Portraits; Children in Cambodia's S-21 Prison; Obligation and Response; Mug Shots; Cambodia Exhibition 'Messengers'; Thinking Singular Plural; Singularity; Singular plurality; Responsibility; Conclusion; Notes; 11 - 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'; A Legacy of Fragments; 'As if I were two': Derrida and Other Spectres; Notes; 12 - Derrida vs Habermas Revisited

Introduction: Let's Have a 'Discussion'!

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610834051

9780748631032

0748631038

9781280834059

1280834056

OCLC:

476052004