Category: Volume 15 – Number 3 – May 2005
Being Jacques Derrida
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Mario Ortiz-Robles Department of English University of Wisconsin, Madison mortizRobles@wisc.edu Review of: Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi. Ed. and trans. Peggy Kamuf. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002. Without Alibi, a collection of five essays written by Jacques Derrida in response to various provocations both in France and in the United States, is not […]
Saint Paul: Friend of Derrida?
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Robert Oventile English Division Pasadena City College rsoventile@pasadena.edu Review of: Jennings, Theodore W., Jr. Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul: On Justice.Stanford: Stanford UP, 2005. Contemporary intellectuals interested in progressive and even militantly leftist possibilities within religious thought have turned increasingly to the letters of Saint Paul. Should one concede Paul–himself a notable casualty of Empire–to […]
A Time for Enlightenment
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Chad Wickman Department of English Kent State University cwickman@kent.edu Review of: Borradori, Giovanna. Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida.Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. Giovanna Borradori’s Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida stages an encounter between two philosophers whose […]
Theory and the Democracy to Come
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R. John Williams Department of Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine rjwillia@uci.edu Review of: Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason. Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001. Voyous: Deux essays sur la raison.Paris: Editions Galilée, 2003. Well, I’ve always regarded the link . . . I’ve never really […]
Fond Perdu
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Fond Perdu, 2004 Collage. Acrylic on paper (29 x 44 cm). Gérard Titus-Carmel
Indirect Address: A Ghost Story
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Bob Perelman Department of English University of Pennsylvania perelman@english.upenn.edu [To Jacques Derrida] I was already iterable when I woke up this A. M.: I had begun to write to [you] in Philadelphia and am now in New York, dragging a motley pageant of tenses across the first sentence which is only just […]
Full Dorsal: Derrida’s Politics of Friendship
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David Wills English Department and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University at Albany, State University of New York DWills@uamail.albany.edu . . . and after the telephone call, I will turn my back on you to sleep, as usual, and you will curl up against me, giving me your hand, you will envelop me. […]
Performative Mourning: Remembering Derrida Through (Re)reading
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Vivian Halloran Comparative Literature Department Indiana University, Bloomington vhallora@indiana.edu On 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida became “irreplaceable” through his death, a gift (don) which was never his either to give or take, as he argues in The Gift of Death, but which nonetheless ensures the self’s passage into individuality because of its very irreproducibility. […]
What’s to Become of “Democracy to Come”?
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A.J.P. Thomson Department of English Literature University of Glasgow A.Thomson@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk There is something of a rogue state in every state. The use of state power is originally excessive and abusive. –Jacques Derrida, Rogues 156 Faced with an apparently inevitable and overwhelming victory for the Islamist Front Islamique du Salut party, and following […]
Passions: A Tangential Offering
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Megan Kerr kerr.megan@gmail.com I read Derrida’s Passions: An Oblique Offering in translation. Je lus or Je lis will be a difficulty for a French translator to resolve or to leave open [thus]. The ambiguity of “I read” is my right as an English writer, but by what right do I write “Derrida’s Passions: […]
Sure Thing? On Things and Objects in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
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Michael Marder Philosophy Department, Graduate Faculty New School University mardm926@newschool.edu Ah, how tired we are, how I would like finally to touch “veil,” the word and the thing thus named, the thing itself and the vocable! I would like not only to see them, see in them, toward them or through them, the word […]
Derrida, Hegel, and the Language of Finitude
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Jan Mieszkowski German Department Reed College mieszkow@reed.edu From his earliest essays to his final lectures, Jacques Derrida endeavored to come to terms with the legacy of German Idealist philosophy. First and foremost, this involved a sustained engagement with the work of G.W.F. Hegel, a thinker who makes extraordinary claims for the self-grounding, self-explicating authority […]
We, the Future of Jacques Derrida
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Eyal Amiran Department of English Michigan State University amiran@msu.edu This special issue of Postmodern Culture is dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida. The issue does not attempt to consider his achievements as a whole or to say what place his work will have in philosophy, literary theory, or literature. What has been apparent […]