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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451046303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-7486-3103-8

1-280-83405-6

9786610834051

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FaganMadeleine

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy, French - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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'!

Sommario/riassunto

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.