DERRIDA JACQUES

(P/B) H.C. FOR LIFE, THAT IS TO SAY?
H. C. for Life, That Is to Say... is Derrida's literary critical recollection of his lifelong friendship with Helene Cixous. The main figure that informs Derrida's reading here is that of "taking sides." While Helene Cixous in her life and work takes the side of life, "for life," Derrida admits always feeling drawn to the side of death. Rather than being an obvious choice, taking the side of life is an act of faith, by wagering one's life on life. H. C. for Life sets up and explores this interminable "argument" between Derrida and Cixous ...
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(P/B) NEGOTIATIONS
This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over thirty years. Passionate, rigorous, beautifully argued, wide-ranging, the texts shed an entirely new light on his work and will be welcomed by scholars in many disciplines - politics, philosophy, history, cultural studies, literature, and a range of interdisciplinary programs. Derrida's arguments vary in their responsiveness to given politi...
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(P/B) ADIEU TO EMMANUEL LEVINAS
This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death. For both thinkers, the word adieu names a fundamental characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say adieu at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is also the a-dieu, for God or to G...
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(P/B) ACTS OF RELIGION
Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes two new essays by Derrida that appear here for the first time in any language, as well as a...
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(P/B) COUNTERPATH
Counterpath is a collaborative work by Catherine Malabou and Jacques Derrida that answers to the gamble inherent in the idea of "travelling with" the philosopher of deconstruction. Malabou's readerly text of quotations and commentary demonstrates how Derrida's work, while appearing to be anything but a travelogue, is nevertheless replete with references to geographical and topographical locations, and functions as a kind of counter-Odyssey through meaning, theorizing, and thematizing notions of arrival, drifting, derivation, and catastroph...
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(H/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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(P/B) RIGHTS OF INSPECTION

(P/B) SPECTERS OF MARX

(P/B) FOR WHAT TOMORROW
"For what tomorrow will be, no one knows," writes Victor Hugo. This dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by the historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two longtime friends who share a common history and an intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are often different, they have many common reference points: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known outside France as "post-structuralist." Beginning with a revealing glance back at the French intellectual scene over the past forty ye...
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ΑΠΡΟΫΠΟΘΕΤΟ Ή ΚΥΡΙΑΡΧΙΑ (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
Στις 3 Ιουνίου 1999 ο Ζακ Ντερριντά αναγορεύθηκε επίτιμος διδάκτορας στο Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο, στην Αθήνα. Η άφιξή του στην Ελλάδα συνέπεσε με τον πόλεμο στο Κοσσυφοπέδιο. Πιστός στις αρχές του, ο Ζακ Ντερριντά, μέσα στο πανεπιστήμιο, θα παρακάμψει τους καθιερωμένους κανόνες εθιμοτυπίας που υπαγορεύουν όχι μόνο τη μορφή αλλά και τη θεματική του λόγου ενός επίτιμου διδάκτορα και θα εκφέρει μια κατ' εξοχήν πολιτική θέση, άμεσα συνυφασμένη με τα τραγικά πολεμικά συμβάντα. Κατ' αυτόν τον τρόπο, εδώ, στην Ελλάδα σπάει για πρώτη φορά τη σιωπή πο...
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