Derrida from now on /

The book begins with an analysis of Derrida's attachment to the French language, to Europe, and to Europesn secular thought before turning to Derrida's long engagement with America and to the ways in which deconstruction allows us to rethink the history, identity, and promise of post-9/11...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Naas, Michael
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press ©2008.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x00qf
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations of works by Jacques Derrida
  • Introduction: Bénédictions-"traces in the history of the French language"
  • Alors, qui êtes-vous?: Jacques Derrida and the question of hospitality
  • Analogy and anagram: deconstruction as deconstruction of the as
  • Derrida's Laïcité
  • A last call for "Europe"
  • Derrida's America
  • Derrida at the wheel
  • "One nation ... indivisible": of autoimmunity, democracy, and the nation-state
  • Autonomy, autoimmunity, and the stretch limo: from Derrida's Rogue State to DeLillo's Cosmopolis
  • History's remains: of memory, mourning, and the event(s) of 9/11
  • Comme si, comme ça: following Derrida on the phantasms of the self, the state, and a Sovereign God
  • Lifelines
  • Conclusion: the world over.