Title
Derrida From Now On / Michael Naas.
ISBN
9780823237555
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (300 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823237555 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
194
Summary
Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the continuing significance of his work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory. If Derrida's thought is to remain relevant for us today, it must be at once understood in its original context and uprooted and transplanted elsewhere. Michael Naas thus begins with an analysis of Derrida's attachment to the French language, to Europe, and to European secular thought, before turning to Derrida's long engagement with the American context and to the ways in which deconstruction allows us to rethink the history, identity, and promise of post-9/11 America. Taking as its point of departure several of Derrida's later works (from "Faith and Knowledge" and The Work of Mourning to Rogues and Learning to Live Finally), the book demonstrates how Derrida's analyses of the phantasms of sovereignty, the essential autoimmunity of democracy or religion, or the impossible mourning of the nation-state can help us to understand what is happening today in American culture, literature, and politics. Though Derrida's thought has always lived on only by being translated elsewhere, his disappearance will have driven home this necessity with a new force and an unprecedented urgency. Derrida From Now On is an effect of this force and an attempt to respond to this urgency.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823229581
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida
Introduction. Bénédictions-''traces in the history of the French language''
1. Alors, qui êtes-vous?
2. Analogy and Anagram
3. Derrida's Laïcité
4. A Last Call for ''Europe''
5. Derrida's America
6. Derrida at the Wheel
7. ''One Nation . . . Indivisible''
8. Autonomy, Autoimmunity, and the Stretch Limo
9. History's Remains
10. Comme si, comme ça
11. Lifelines
Conclusion
Notes
Index
