DERRIDA JACQUES

(H/B) THE PROBLEM OF GENESIS IN HUSSERL'S PHILOSOPHY

(P/B) HEIDEGGER

ΤΡΕΛΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ
Στα 1961 ο Μισέλ Φουκώ δημοσιεύει την Ιστορία της τρέλας κατά την κλασική εποχή και δύο χρόνια αργότερα ο «μαθητής» του Ζακ Ντεριντά απαντά με μια βιβλιοκρισία πλέον του δέοντος «κριτική» (η οποία συμπεριελήφθη αργότερα στο ''Γραφή και διαφορά''), για να ακολουθήσει η απάντηση του Φουκώ που ενσωματώθηκε ως επίμετρο στη νέα έκδοση του βιβλίο του. Σε αυτή τη σφοδρή αντιπαράθεση δασκάλου - μαθητή, που διεξάγεται πάντως με όλους τους κανόνες του καλώς αγωνίζεσθαι, ο Έλληνας αναγνώστης μπορεί να απολαύσει μια από τις πιο εντυπωσιακές μονομαχίες...
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ΣΥΝΟΜΙΛΙΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΑΥΡΙΟ
«Από τι αποτελείται το αύριο;» ρωτά ο Βίκτορ Ουγκώ. Ένας φιλόσοφος και μια ιστορικός απαντούν στη διάρκεια ενός πυκνού και απαιτητικού διαλόγου. Γιατί αποφάσισαν να γράψουν από κοινού τούτο το βιβλίο; Λόγω μιας μακράς φιλίας, εν ονόματι μιας κοινής ιστορίας, δυνάμει της ποιότητας μιας αδιάκοπης συνομιλίας που άρχισε στα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1960, όταν η νεαρή φοιτήτρια ανακάλυψε πόσο σημαντικός ήταν αυτός ο - μεγαλύτερός της κατά 15 χρόνια - στοχαστής που αφύπνιζε, μαζί με άλλους, το κριτικό πνεύμα μιας ολόκληρης γενιάς. Εάν οι οπτικές γ...
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(P/B) LIMITED INC
Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statement of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of Derrida's most controversial idea, that linguistic meaning is fundamentally indeterminate because the contexts that fix meaning are never stable. Limited Inc includes an important new afterword by the author. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ATHENS, STILL REMAINS
Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Franois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several unexpected and mutually illuminating directions.First published in French and Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida's most sustained analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium. At once photographic analy...
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(P/B) POINTS...
This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings. Often, as in the interview on Heidegger, or that on drugs, or on the nature of poetry, these interviews offer not only an introduction to other discussi...
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(P/B) THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN (VOLUME ONE)
When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English. The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida's exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001-2002, Derrida continu...
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(P/B) PAPER MACHINE
This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking...
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(P/B) DECONSTRUCTION AND CRITICISM
Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller....
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(P/B) THE GIFT OF DEATH AND LITERATURE IN SECRET
The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka's Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. One of Derrida's major works, The Gift of Death resonates with much of h...
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(P/B) THE WORK OF MOURNING
Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher - if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an illustrious career, and, among many who were his colleagues and peers, he inspired friendship. The Work of Mourning is a collection that honors those friendships in the wake of passing. Gathered here are texts - letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations - written ...
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ΜΑΘΑΙΝΟΝΤΑΣ ΝΑ ΖΕΙΣ ΕΝ ΤΕΛΕΙ
"Μαθαίνεις να ζεις, αυτό θα έπρεπε να σημαίνει ότι μαθαίνεις να πεθάνεις, να λαμβάνεις υπ' όψιν, για να την αποδεχθείς, την απόλυτη θνητότητα. [...] Από τον Πλάτωνα και εφεξής πρόκειται για το παλαιό φιλοσοφικό κέλευσμα: φιλοσοφείς σημαίνει μαθαίνεις να πεθάνεις. Πιστεύω σε τούτη την αλήθεια χωρίς να παραδίδομαι σ' αυτήν. Όλο και λιγότερο. Δεν έχω μάθει να τον αποδέχομαι, τον θάνατο. Είμαστε όλοι επιζώντες με αναστολή". Τον Αύγουστο του 2004, λίγο περισσότερο από ένα μήνα πριν από τον θάνατό του, (8.10.2004), δημοσιεύτηκε η ανά χείρας τελ...
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(P/B) MARGINS OF PHILOSOPHY
"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger - each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin) and on the nature of metaphor ("White Mythology"), the latter with important implications for literary theory. Derrida is fully in control of a dazzling stylistic register in this book - a source of true illumination for those prepared to follo...
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(P/B) A TASTE FOR THE SECRET
In this series of dialogues, Derrida discusses and elaborates on some of the central themes of his work, such as the problems of genesis, justice, authorship and death. Combining autobiographical reflection with philosophical enquiry, Derrida illuminates the ideas that have characterized his thought from its beginning to the present day. If there is one feature that links these contributions, it is the theme of singularity - the uniqueness of the individual, the resistance of existence to philosophy, the temporality of the singular and exc...
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(P/B) OF GRAMMATOLOGY
Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controv...
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(H/B) THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN (VOLUME II)
Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002-2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger's 1929-1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. As he moves back and forth between the two works, Derrida pursuesthe relations between solitude, insularity, ...
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(P/B) GIVEN TIME
Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundamental level of the gift's meaning: for the gift to be received as a gift, it must not appear as such, since its mere appearance as gift puts it in the cycle of repayment and debt. Derrida reads the relation of time to gift through a number of texts: Heidegger's Time and Being, Mauss's The Gift, as...
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(H/B) THE DEATH PENALTY (VOLUME 1)
In this newest instalment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established - and to the place it has been mo...
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(P/B) WITHOUT ALIBI
This book brings together five recent essays by Jacques Derrida that advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital punishment. Strongly linked by their attention to "performatives" and the "as if," the essays show the necessity of thinking beyond the category of acts that are possible for a subject. Derrida argues forcefully that thought must engage with the impossible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolut...
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