The Late Derrida

W. J. T. MITCHELL et Arnold I. DAVIDSON [dir.], The Late Derrida, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007, 200 p.
ISBN 978-0-226-53257-8
ISBN-10 0-226-53257-7


SUMMARY

The rubric “The Late Derrida,” with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida published more than he had produced during his entire career up to that point. At the same time, this volume deconstructs the whole question of lateness and the usefulness of periodization. It calls into question the “fact” of his turn to politics, law, and ethics and highlights continuities throughout his oeuvre.

The scholars included here write of their understandings of Derrida’s newest work and how it impacts their earlier understandings of such classic texts as Glas and Of Grammatology. Some have been closely associated with Derrida since the beginning—both in France and in the United States—but none are Derrideans. That is, this volume is a work of critique and a deep and continued engagement with the thought of one of the most significant philosophers of our time. It represents a recognition that Derrida’s work has yet to be addressed—and perhaps can never be addressed—in its totality.


CONTENTS

W. J. T. Mitchell
Dead Again 

Vincent B. Leitch
Late Derrida: The Politics of Sovereignty

J. Hillis Miller
Derrida Enisled

W. J. T. Mitchell
Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity

Rodolphe Gasché
European Memories: Jan Pato ka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

Frances Ferguson
Jacques Derrida and the Critique of the Geometrical Mode: The Line and the Point

Stephen Melville
"Allô? Allô?"

Geoffrey Hartman
Homage to Glas

Freddy Tellez and Bruno Mazzoldi
The Pocket-Size Interview with Jacques Derrida

Hélène Cixous
Jacques Derrida as a Proteus Unbound

Michael Fried
Three Poems

Lorenzo Fabbri
Philosophy as Chance: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy

Jacques Derrida
A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event

Jacques Derrida
Final Words