"An important contribution to the critical study of ethics . . . [for those] made curious by the controversy that . . . attends Derrida." — Booklist, on the first editionThe 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, executi...

Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from the responses to his writing that Critical Inquiry encouraged. Collecting the best of Derrida's work that was published in the journal between 1980 and 2002, Signature Derrida provides a remarkable introduction to t...

Interpretations of Plato, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Philippe Sollers' writings in three essays: "Plato's Pharmacy," "The Double Session," and "Dissemination.""The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore ...

¿Qué fue lo que hice al anunciar este seminario bajo el título de "La vida-la muerte", es decir, reemplazando por un guion o por un espaciado sin él o por un guion sin palabra, por un silencio marcado, la y que en general pone la muerte con la vida, yuxtapuesta la una a la otra o, más seguramente, opuesta? Lo que quizás aparece justamente como problema en lo referido a la vida la muerte es la relación de yuxtaposición o de oposición, la relación de posición, la lógica de la posición (dialé...

Espectros fue el primer título que Marx pensó para su Manifiesto. Derrida lo recupera en este libro para realizar una crítica de la herencia de Marx en el mundo contemporáneo, una crítica vertida desde su particular teoría filosófica: la deconstrucción. Jacques Derrida critica un nuevo dogmatismo, una nueva intolerancia que se ha adueñado de Europa, el dogmatismo capitalista que insiste en la muerte de Marx y del marxismo. Para Derrida es necesario conjurar de nuevo los espectros, los «esp...

Durant l’année universitaire 1969-1970, Jacques Derrida consacre un séminaire au problème des rapports entre la psychanalyse et la critique littéraire. Ce séminaire, l’un des rares à traiter de l’esthétique freudienne, est l’occasion pour Derrida d’analyser ce qu’il appelle la « première doctrine » de Freud, à savoir sa théorie marquée par la toute-puissance du plaisir.Or, avec l’introduction par Freud de la catégorie du double et ses spéculations sur la pulsion de mort, tout chang...

La prima versione di Chora apparve in Francia nel 1987, seguita nel '93 da una seconda che comprendeva anche altri due saggi. In un foglio volante Derrida scriveva che «si è giudicato opportuno pubblicare simultaneamente Passions, Sauf le nom e Chora perché li attraversa il filo di una identica tematica». «Essi formano - continuava - una sorta di Saggio sul nome, in tre capitoli o tre tempi. Anche in tre fiction. Sulla scia dei segni che in sile...

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III." The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a gap that has perplexed Derrida scholars. The series centers on Martin Heidegger and the enigmatic German word Geschlecht, which has several meanings pointing to race, sex, and lineage. Throughout the series, Derrida engages wit...

The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving collection of writings and interviews about his life there ope...

The deconstruction bombshell that rocked the Anglophone world.Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy—called deconstruction—changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy, literature, and the human sciences that these disciplines would have previously considered improper. Forty years after Of Grammatology first appea...

Qu’appelle-t-on un étranger ? Comment l’accueille-t-on ? Comment le refoule-t-on ? Quelle différence entre un autre et un étranger ? Qu’est-ce qu'une invitation, une visite, une visitation ? Comment la notion de l’étranger s’inscrit-elle dans la langue ? Quelle est son histoire européenne, et d’abord grecque ou latine ? Comment se distribue-t-elle dans les espaces de la parenté, de l’ethnie, de la Cité, de l’État, de la nation ? Comment analyser aujourd’hui, notamment en France et en Europ...

The translated, complete text of Derrida's 1997 ten-hour address, "The Autobiographical Animal," focusing on the industrialized treatment of animals.The Animal That Therefore I Am is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction?dating from Descartes?between man as thinking a...