Guerlac / Cheah Derrida and the Time of the Political

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9009-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A collection assessing the implications of Derridas thought for contemporary political theory and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guerlac, Suzanne

Cheah, Pheng

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1

Part I. Openings

Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41

Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology

Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57

The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74

Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97

Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114

Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe

European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135

"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158

Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177

Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196

Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics

The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215

Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235

The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255

Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274

Part V. Afterword

Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291

Bibliography 307

Contributors 323

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

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 Association’s Scaglione Prize.