num_pages: 256
description: 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 FeaturesThe first interdisciplinary text of its kindFeatures original work from some of the world's most eminent Derridean scholars including Richard Beardsworth, Christina Howells and Christopher NorrisIncludes chapters which explore the relationship between Derrida and key contemporaries such as Sartre, Nancy, Heidegger, Blanchot, Deleuze, Levinas and HabermasContents:Introduction: Inheriting Deconstruction, Surviving DerridaLudovic Glorieux and Indira HasimbegovicI Future of Deconstruction1. Analytic Philosophy in Another Key: Derrida on Language, Truth and LogicChristopher Norris2. The Future of Critical Philosophy and World PoliticsRichard Beardsworth3. Derrida's Rogues: Islam and the Futures of DeconstructionAlex Thomson4. Force [of] TransformationMichael DillonII Interrupting the Same5. Derrida's Memory, War and the Politics of EthicsMaja Zehfuss6. The (International) Politics of Friendship: Exemplar, Exemplarity, ExclusionJosef Ansorge7. Ethical Assassination? Negotiating the (Ir)responsible DecisionDan Bulley8. Exploiting the Ambivalence of a Crisis: A practitioner reads 'Diversity Training' through Homi BhabhaApril BiccumIII Following/ Breaking9. Sartre and Derrida: the promises of the subjectChristina Howells10. What It Is To Be Many: Subjecthood, Responsibility and Sacrifice in Derrida and NancyJenny Edkins11. 'Derrida's Theatre of Survival: Fragmentation, Death and Legacy'Daniel Watt12. Derrida vs. Habermas RevisitedLasse ThomassenConclusions: The Im/Possibility of ClosureMadeleine Fagan and Marie Suetsugu.
language: English
title: Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy
titlecomplete: Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Edinburgh University Press