Derrida and the Time of the Political by Pheng Cheah (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Derrida and the Time of the Political by Pheng Cheah, Suzanne Guerlac A collection assessing the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derridas death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosophers political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derridas work became widely available in English in the late 1970s. While Derrida expounded political and ethical themes from the late 1980s on, there has been relatively little Anglo-American analysis of that later work or its relation to the philosophers entire corpus. Filling a critical gap, this volume provides multiple perspectives on the political turn in Derridas work, showing how deconstruction bears on political theory and real-world politics. The contributors include distinguished scholars of deconstruction whose thinking developed in close proximity to Derridas, as well as leading political theorists and philosophers who engage Derridas thought from further afield.The volume opens with a substantial introduction in which Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac survey Derridas entire corpus and position his later work in relation to it. The remaining essays address the concerns that arise out of Derridas analysis of politics and the conditions of the political, such as the meaning and scope of democracy, the limits of sovereignty, the relationship between the ethical and the political, the nature of responsibility, the possibility for committed political action, the implications of deconstructive thought for non-Western politics, and the future of nationalism in an era of globalization and declining state sovereignty. The collection is framed by original contributions from Helene Cixous and Judith Butler.Contributors. Etienne Balibar, Geoffrey Bennington, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Helene Cixous, Rodolphe Gasche, Suzanne Guerlac, Marcel Henaff, Martin Jay, Anne Norton, Jacques Ranciere, Soraya Tlatli, Satoshi Ukai Notes Assesses the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics Author Biography Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Associations Scaglione Prize. Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1Part I. Openings Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derridas Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274Part V. Afterword Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291Bibliography 307Contributors 323Index 327 Review "Derrida and the Time of the Political undoes once and for all the unproductive opposition between deconstruction and politics that has dominated the United States academy. This is a stellar collection, the pieces are diversified, not a commemorative gesture but a critical engagement. Careful theoretical parsing combines with detailed political awareness to make this book an authoritative document for understanding not only the later Derrida and political deconstruction but the problems and engagements of our time."--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University Promotional Assesses the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics Review Quote "The Introduction provides a thorough, thoughtful overview of the question of the political in Derridas writings and of the successive ways it was treated or approached in the decades before his death. It also quite convincingly gives an account of the way in which those motifs in his thought that might most obviously be related to political concerns (democracy, sovereignty, justice, law, hospitality and so on) are intimately connected to his more philosophical concerns. . . . [T]his is a provocative volume that deserves recognition as a major milestone in the longstanding debate about the political dimension of deconstructive thought." - Ian James, French Studies Details ISBN082234372X Short Title DERRIDA & THE TIME OF THE POLI Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 082234372X ISBN-13 9780822343721 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 320.092 Year 2009 Author Suzanne Guerlac Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Pheng Cheah UK Release Date 2009-01-16 AU Release Date 2009-01-16 NZ Release Date 2009-01-16 US Release Date 2009-01-16 Pages 352 Publication Date 2009-01-16 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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