...This chapter details Jacques Derrida's participation in a roundtable discussion on October 2, 1994, which was the centerpiece of a day dedicated to the official inauguration of the new doctoral program in philosophy at Villanova University. Derrida was speaking in English, extemporaneously...

...The first chapter of On the Ground offers a conceptual intervention, contending that “ground” is fundamentally distinct from “foundation.” Through engagement with Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, Chapter 1 exposes the fallacy of equating ground with foundation and thus...

...Beginning with attention to the anxious exploration of human relations with other animals and wildness in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Euripides’s Bacchae, this chapter engages the question of the animal in Heidegger, Derrida, and present critical animal debates...

...The introduction provides a brief account of the philosophical, biographical, and scholarly issues surrounding the question of religion in Derrida's work. It suggests that a study of Derrida's engagement with religion brings to the fore many of the themes that have marked his work, including...

...This chapter discusses the ways in which Jacques Derrida's writings have consistently taken up the theological and mystical tradition of divine names by insisting on the iterability of a certain mention and use of “God,” while inscribing indelible change in this repetition and its trace...

...This essay compares the work of Jacques Derrida and Henri Birault. Birault was one of the most important French readers of Martin Heidegger in the 1950s and 60s and his work was an significant influence on Derrida's own. Placing Birault's work in the broader reception of Heidegger in France...

...The following study interprets the figure of Abraham through the philosophical writings of Hegel and Kierkegaard in order to open towards what Derrida calls, in the “Abraham, the Other” lecture delivered in December 2000 at the Judeities. Questions for Jacques Derrida...

...The question of religion was a major preoccupation for Jacques Derrida especially during the last years of his life. His writings on this theme have continued to inspire and provoke, and they have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace...

...This chapter revolves around the role played by the virgin girl in Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign, vol. 1. Derrida suggests that the figure of the girl is between two marionettes, which I interpret as the machine of culture and the machine of nature. Extending Derrida's...

... relationship between spectacle, animals, and the death penalty. animals death penalty genocide sovereignty binary logic Derrida Jacques The Animal That Therefore I Am Descartes René Heidegger Martin Kant Immanuel spectacle speculation codification death Edison Thomas electric chair lethal...

... and politics. Moving through Derrida's notion of hyperbolic ethics as a justice to come, I suggest that deconstructive ethics requires that we take responsibility for finding ourselves caught between ethics and politics in the impossible place of respecting the singularity of each life while generalizing...

...This chapter argues that the predominant reception of Jacques Derrida's book Specters of Marx as revealing an unexpected receptivity to the notion of the messianic is at best partial. It clarifies this interpretation by setting out Derrida's usage of the notion of messianic...

... before moving on to Jacques Derrida’s analysis of luck or contingency in his recently published seminar Life Death (1975–1976). The essay follows Derrida’s reading of François Jacob’s The Logic of the Living in order to show how this Nobel Prize–winning geneticist tried...

...Some critics have been confused about a life-long engagement with the work of Jacques Derrida and my commitment to normative political philosophy and institutional innovation and transformation. I show that by reading Derrida against some prominent interpretations of his work including renaming...

...In this third and final act of “Derrida in Montreal,” we see Derrida in April 1997, some eighteen years after the second act, yet again in Montreal, speaking at the Canadian Center for Architecture, giving a series of improvised remarks that would later be published under the title “A Certain...

...This chapter focuses on the first volume of Derrida’s seminar Perjury and Pardon (1997–1998), where Derrida returns, more than a quarter of a century after “Signature Event Context,” to questions of contingency and the speech act and, especially, the possibility of a speech act...

...Jacques Derrida has nothing against reconciliation. He thinks that people should do whatever they can to reach a reconciliation worthy of that name, be it the end of war, the end of violence, and so on. However, a reconciliation would not be simply a compromise in which the other (as is always...

... of the hero to the woman he loved and left behind in New York. It also provides an account of philosopher Jacques Derrida as a critic of English literature. Defoe Daniel Derrida Jacques Hopkins Gerard Manley Joyce James Melville Herman Poe Edgar Allan Shakespeare William Shelley Percy Bysshe Heidegger...

...This chapter illustrates how Derrida looks upon America, and describes Derrida's life in America. It considers Derrida's influence on America, especially in deconstruction, a term often associated with him. It also provides a description of Derrida's “America” and “Europe”. Algeria Deconstruction...

...This chapter explains (in the light of Derrida's work) how a nation can be undivided, by autoimmunity and democracy, especially in Europe and America. It examines Derrida's notion of autoimmunity, and looks at the consequences of a terminological shift (deconstruction) for understanding Derrida's...