Derrida

The death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 represented a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. This death calls for an engagement with Derrida's work and an attempt to understand his legacy. Such a discussion is fraught with tension between remaining faithful after death and putting Derrida's writing to work in new directions, posing challenges and exposing limitations. In short this legacy is, necessarily, a negotiation. The aim of this book is to grapple with this specific theme and to explore the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself. The authors demonstrate that there is no single way to adopt or inherit Derrida's thought. Rather, through their engagement with contemporary themes within Politics and International Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies and Postcolonial Studies, each chapter illuminates the degree to which on-going reflection, radical critique, and above all radical self-critique are demanded by deconstruction. This book provides the key starting point for any serious assessment of what the implications of the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers might be. Key Features: The first interdisciplinary text of its kind Features original work from some of the world's most eminent Derridean scholars including Richard Beardsworth, Christina Howells and Christopher Norris Includes chapters which explore the relationship between Derrida and key contemporaries such as Sartre, Nancy, Heidegger, Blanchot, Deleuze, Levinas and Habermas

Madeleine Fagan is an Institute of Advanced Studies Global Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is co-editor of Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) Marie Suetsugu is a member of the Aberystwyth Post-International Group, a postgraduate-led research group which has been based in the Department of Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth since 1993.

Introduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving Derrida; Ludovic Glorieux and Indira Hasimbegovic; I Future of Deconstruction; 1. Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and Logic; Christopher Norris; 2. The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics; Richard Beardsworth; 3. Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of Deconstruction; Alex Thomson; 4. Force [of] Transformation; Michael Dillon; II Interrupting the Same; 5. Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of Ethics; Maja Zehfuss; 6. The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, Exclusion; Josef Ansorge; 7. Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible Decision; Dan Bulley; 8. Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi Bhabha; April Biccum; III Following/ Breaking; 9. Sartre and Derrida: the promises of the subject; Christina Howells; 10. What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and Nancy; Jenny Edkins; 11. 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'; Daniel Watt; 12. Derrida vs. Habermas Revisited; Lasse Thomassen; Conclusions: The Im/Possibility of Closure; Madeleine Fagan and Marie Suetsugu.