Acknowledments

Several chapters of this book were initially presented as lectures at various institutions or conferences, and many were subsequently published in earlier versions in different journals or collections. They all benefited enormously from the conversations that followed these lectures and the suggestions received from various editors and copyeditors. All but the Conclusion were significantly rewritten for this volume.

Parts of the Introduction were presented at a special session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) in December 2005 at the invitation of Claudia Brodsky. Chapter 1 was first presented in January 2005 at the Alliance Française in Chicago at the invitation of Norah Delaney and published in SubStance #106, 34, no. 1 (2005): 6–17. Parts of Chapter 2 were presented at a conference organized by Tanja Stähler in June 2005 at the University of Sussex. Chapter 3, first presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) in October 2006, and then in April 2007 at Marquette University at the invitation of Pol Vandervelde, and then again in October 2007 at Northern Arizona University at the invitation of Julie Piering, was published in The New Centennial Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 21–42. Chapter 4 was first presented at Slippery Rock College at the invitation of Bernie Freydberg and Richard Findler and was published in Theory & Event 8, no. 1 (2005): 1–19. Chapter 5, first presented in February 2005 at the Tate Museum in London at the invitation of Simon Glendinning and then at the Midwest meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Chicago in April 2005, at a session organized by Penelope Deutscher, was published in Derrida's Legacies, ed. Simon Glendinning and Robert Eaglestone (London: Routledge, 2008), 118–37. Chapter 6 was first published in French under the title “Un philosophe à son tour” in the Cahier de l'Herne devoted to Derrida (Paris: l'Herne, 2004), 131–36), and then in English as “A Philosopher at the Wheel,” in Mosaic 39, no. 3 (September 2006): 59–68. Chapter 7 was first presented at the International Symposium on Deconstruction and National Contexts, organized by Alcides Cardoso dos Santos in Araraquara, Brazil, in June 2005, and then at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Città di Castello, Italy, in July 2005 at the invitation of Dennis Schmidt; it was subsequently published in Research in Phenomenology 36 (2006): 15–44. Chapter 8 was initially written for the conference Postmodernism at Wofford College in March 2004 at the invitation of Vivian Fisher, and it benefited greatly from my conversations there with Karen Goodchild, Stephen Michelman, and Jim Neighbors. Chapter 9 was originally written for the July 2002 conference on Derrida at Cerisy-la-Salle, organized by Marie-Louise Mallet, and was published in French as “Les restes de l'histoire: Comment faire son deuil des inconnus,” in La démocratie à venir: Autour du travail de Jacques Derrida Paris: Galilée, 2004), 549–65, and then rewritten in English as “History's Remains: Of Memory, Mourning, and the Event,” for Research in Phenomenology 33 (2003): 75–96. Chapter 10 was first presented at a conference organized by Dawne McCance at the University of Manitoba in October 2006 and was published in Mosaic 40, no. 2 (June 2007): 1–26. “Lifelines,” Chapter 11, initially written in French at the invitation of René Major for Mélanges (Paris: Stock, 2007), 63–81, was subsequently presented in English at the October 2004 meeting of SPEP and published in Epochē 10, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 221–36. Finally, the Conclusion was first presented at a memorial session for Derrida at SPEP in October 2004 and was published in its present form as “The World Over” in Radical Philosophy Review 8, no. 2 (2005): 123–30.