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 cheerfullyintended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vastoutpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida published more than he hadproduced during his entire career up to that point. At the same time,this volume deconstructs the whole question of lateness and theusefulness of periodization. It calls into question the “fact” of histurn to politics, law, and ethics and highlights continuitiesthroughout his oeuvre.
The scholars included here write of theirunderstandings of Derrida’s newest work and how it impacts theirearlier understandings of such classic texts as Glas and Of Grammatology.Some have been closely associated with Derrida since the beginning—bothin France and in the United States—but none are Derrideans. That is,this volume is a work of critique and a deep and continued engagementwith the thought of one of the most significant philosophers of ourtime. It represents a recognition that Derrida’s work has yet to beaddressed—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