A Companion to Derrida E-Book

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Beschreibung

A Companion to Derrida is the most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Leading scholars present a summary of his most important accomplishments across a broad range of subjects, and offer new assessments of these achievements.

• The most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida, with contributions from highly prominent Derrida scholars
• Unique focus on three major philosophical themes of metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, religion, and politics; and art and literature
• Introduces the reader to the positions Derrida took in various areas of philosophy, as well as clarifying how derrideans interpret them in the present
• Contributions present not only a summary of Derrida’s most important accomplishments in relation to a wide range of disciplines, but also a new assessment of these accomplishments
• Offers a greater understanding of how Derrida’s work has fared since his death

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Table of Contents

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

Title page

Copyright page

List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida)

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

References

Part I: Fundamental Themes and Concepts in Derrida's Thought

1: Truth in Derrida

1.  Truth and Writing

2.  Reading as an Argument: The Logic of Deconstruction

3.  Deconstruction, Truth, and the Realist/Anti-Realist Debate

References

2: A Certain Truth: Derrida's Transformation of the Kantian Heritage

1.  Double Kantian References

2.  Reiterating Kant's Move – Beyond Recognition

3.  After Truth

References

3: Difference

1.  Poststructuralist Difference

2.  Post-Phenomenological Difference

3.  Sexual Difference and Human–Animal Difference

References

4: The Obscurity of “Différance”

Conclusion: The Obscurity of Différance

Note

References

5: Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida

1.  “White Mythology”

2.  Analogy in “White Mythology” and in the Later Works

3.  Conclusion: The “Eve” of Philosophy

Notes

References

6: The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics

1.  Derrida's Machines

2.  Command Counter-Command

3.  Derrida the Wolf

4.  Derrida the Gambler

5.  Upping the Ante

6.  The Deconstructive Dose

References

7: Deconstruction

1.  Three Definitions of Deconstruction

2.  Anachronism: Life as Powerlessness and Power

3.  Conclusion: “Who, We?”

Note

References

8: The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction

1.  On the Necessity of Asking Transcendental Questions

2.  Conditions of Possibility as Conditions of Impossibility

3.  The Quasi-Transcendental in Derrida's Early Works: On the Role of Writing in the

Introduction

to Husserl's

Origin of Geometry

4.  The Quasi-Transcendental in Derrida's Later Writings

5.  The Originality of Derrida's Contribution in the Context of Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

References

9: Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics

1.  Introduction

2.  Ontology and Metaphysics

3.  Writing and Closure

4.  Violence and Writing

5.  Hauntology and Being-With

6.  Closing: And So On

Notes

References

10: Derrida's Radical Atheism

1.  Radical Evil and Faith

2.  Radical Evil and the Unconditional

3.  Radical Evil and the Messianic

Notes

References

11: Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida's Deconstruction

1.  Derrida and Levinas

2.  Derrida, Heidegger, and Time

3.  The Problem of Genesis

4.  Conclusion: Play and Messianicity

Notes

References

12: I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida's Work

1.  Déjà – D.Ja.

2.  The Concept of Countersignature?

3.  The Second Invention of

Relever

Notes

References

13: An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida

1.  The Abstraction of the Greeks

2.  Messianicity and Faith in “Faith and Knowledge”

3.  The Legacy of Derrida: “Tolerance”

Notes

References

Part II: Derrida and …

14: Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle)

1.  Inclusion and Exclusion

2.  Plato's Exclusion of Writing

3.  Conclusion: More and So Less Greek than the Greeks Themselves

Notes

References

15: There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek: The Strange Dialogue Between Levinas and Derrida

1.  The Interrogation: Derrida's Questions to Levinas

2.  Neither Occidentalism, Nor Historicism

3.  The Historical Coupling of Judaism and Hellenism and Their Decoupling

4.  Beyond Assimilation and the Ghetto

Note

References

16: The Crystallization of the Impossible: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty at the Threshold of Phenomenology

1.  Derrida's Deconstruction: Potency Rendered Impotent

2.  Blindness

3.  Auto-Affection

is

Hetero-Affection: Temporalization

4.  Touch and the Crystallization of the Impossible

5.  At the Threshold of Phenomenology

Notes

References

17: The Politics of Writing: Derrida and Althusser

1.  The Three Rs at the École

2.  Mathematical Writing

3.  Two Theories of Reading and Writing

4.  The Movement Between Two Forms

5.  Conclusion

Notes

References

18: Derrida and Psychoanalysis

1.  Introduction: The “Friend” of Psychoanalysis

2.  An Invincible Force: A Reason Without Alibi

3.  “Too Much at Home”: Psychoanalysis Too Philosophical

4.  Cruelty and Psychoanalysis

5.  Conclusion: Deconstruction's Jouissance

Notes

References

19: Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology

1.  Of Ghosts and Machines

2.  

Différance

's “Elsewhere”

3.  The Core and its Occulted Correlate

4.  Emanations

5.  Conclusion: Optical Recalls

Notes

References

Films

20: Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction

1.  Not Even a Hint of Disagreement

2.  De Man and Derrida Juxtaposed

3.  Derrida's Strategies of Argumentation

4.  Conclusion: Not a Unified Theory

References

21: Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism

1.  Derrida's Reading of Rousseau: Auto-Immunity and Nature's Supplement

2.  Sexual Difference and the Supplement

3.  Supplemental Objects of Desire

4.  Fraternity and the Exclusion of Women

5.  Birth, Nation, and Violence

6.  Feminism, Ethnocentrism, and Auto-Immunity

References

22: Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida

1.  

Antigone

: As Much about Slavery versus Freedom as Sexual Difference

2.  Women Remain in Excess

3.  Free from Servitude

4.  The Form of the Text of

G

las

5.  Conclusion: From Sexual Difference to Racial Difference

References

23: Art's Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan

1.  Opening

2.  From Philostratus'

I

magines

3.  Artaud

4.  Atlan

Notes

References

24: Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility

1.  Introduction

2.  Heidegger's Thought of Responsibility

3.  Derrida: From the Inappropriable to the Im-possible

4.  Conclusion: The Secret of Responsibility

Notes

References

25: On Faith and the Holy in Heidegger and Derrida

1.  Heidegger on Faith and Philosophy

2.  The Holy and the Question of Being in Heidegger

3.  Derrida on Faith and the Holy

4.  Faith as a Source of Thinking in Derrida

5.  Concluding Remarks

References

26: “Safe, Intact”: Derrida, Nancy, and the “Deconstruction of Christianity”

1.  The Unscathed – Derrida's “Faith and Knowledge”

2.  Tact and Touch: Derrida's

On Touching – Jean-Luc Nancy

3.  Do Not Wish to Touch Me:

Noli Me Tangere

4.  Intact: Nancy's “Consolation, désolation” and “Salut à toi”

5.  There's Deconstruction and There's Deconstruction

Notes

References

27: Derrida and the Trace of Religion

1.  The Trace (of) “God”

2.  “My Religion, About Which Nobody Understands Anything”

3.  The Return of Anti-Religion

References

28: Derrida and Islamic Mysticism: An Undecidable Relationship

1.  “Islam, This Particular One and Not Islam in General”

2.  Islamic Mysticism: Theological Engagement with Deconstruction

3.  An Undecidable Relationship

References

29: Derrida and Education

1.  Haby, GREPH, and Derrida's Turn to Education

2.  The Institution of the Collège International de Philosophie

3.  Conclusion: A Call for New Work

References

Part III: Areas of Investigation

30: A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida

1.  Animal Touch According to Derrida

2.  The Law of Animal Touch

3.  An Ethics of Animal Touch in Derrida?

4.  Conclusion: The Three Illusions of Touch

References

31: Poetry, Animality, Derrida

1.  Pad

2.  What Would You Like to Be?

3.  Distracted Apocalypse

4.  Final Cut

5.  Postscript: In the Burrow

References

32: On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation

1.  “On the Way to Globalization”

2.  How to Make Sense of Forgiveness?

3.  Who Forgives? Forgiveness, Sovereignty, and the Gift

4.  Experiencing Forgiveness

References

33: Cosmopolitanism to Come: Derrida's Response to Globalization

1.  Globalization and Cosmopolitanism

2.  The Call or Voice of Cosmopolitanism to Come

3.  Cosmopolitanism to Come and

Différance

4.  Cosmopolitanism to Come as an Unconditional Injunction

5.  Cosmopolitanism to Come and Autoimmunization

6.  Is Democratic Cosmopolitanism Unconditional?

7.  The Primacy of Voices and Cosmopolitanism to Come

References

34: The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good Enough

1.  The Soul and Life, Plato and Nietzsche

2.  The First Time Is the Last Time

3.  More Vigilance

4.  Conclusion: The Flipside of Violence

Notes

References

35: Derrida/Law: A Differend

1.  Before Law

2.  Then, Law

3.  Law French

4.  Law Other-Wise

5.  For Law

Note

References

Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Derrida

Index

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List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida)

AThe Animal That Therefore I Am, trans. David Wills, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008).AA“Antwort an Appel,” Zeitmitschrift: Journal für Ästhetik, 3 (Sommer 1987): 79–85.ADArguing with Derrida, ed. Simon Glendinning (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001).AELAdieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999).AFArchive Fever, trans. Eric Prenowitz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).AFT“Afterw.rds: or, at least, less than a letter about a letter less,” trans. Geoffrey Bennington, in Afterwords, ed. Nicholas Royle (Tampere, Finland: Outside Books, 1992): 197–203.AIWD“As If I Were Dead: An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” in Applying: To Derrida, ed. John Brannigan, Ruth Robbins, and Julian Wolfreys (London: Macmillan, 1996): 212–226.ALActs of Literature, ed. Derek Attridge (London: Routledge, 1991).ALTAltérités, with Pierre-Jean Labarrière (Paris: Osiris, 1986).APAporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993).ARActs of Religion, ed. Gil Anidjar (London: Routledge, 2002).ATHAthens, Still Remains, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).ATON“An Apocalyptic Tone That Has Recently Been Adopted in Philosophy,” trans. John P. Leavey, Jr., in Raising the Tone of Philosophy, ed. Peter Fenves (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993): 117–171.AVP“Avant-propos,” in Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde (Paris: Galilée, 2003): 9–11.BIO“Biodegradables: Seven Diary Fragments,” trans. Peggy Kamuf, Critical Inquiry, 15 (1989): 812–873.BS1The Beast and the Sovereign, vol. 1, ed. Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, and Ginette Michaud, trans. Geoffrey Bennington (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).BS2The Beast and the Sovereign, vol. 2, ed. Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, and Ginette Michaud, trans. Geoffrey Bennington (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).CDD“Ce que disait Derrida…,” with Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Le Point (Paris), October 14, 2004, 106–11.CFOn Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, trans. Mark Dooley and Michael Hughes (London: Routledge, 2001).CIP“A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event,” trans. Gila Walker, Critical Inquiry, 33(2) (Winter 2007): 441–461.CIR“Circumfession,” trans. Geoffrey Bennington, in Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993): 3–315.CLW”Afterword,” with Jeffrey Kipnis, in Chora L Works, ed. Jeffrey Kipnis and Thomas Leeser (New York: Monacelli, 1997).CP“On Colleges and Philosophy,” in Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, Postmodernism: ICA Documents, ed. L. Appignanesi (London: Free Association Books, 1989): 209–228.CPTCounterpath: Traveling with J. Derrida, with Catherine Malabou (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).CS“Countersignature,” trans. Mairéad Hanrahan, Paragraph, Special Issue on Genet, 27(2) (2005): 7–42.CSF“Le cinéma et ses fantômes,” interview with Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse, Cahiers du Cinéma (April 2001): 75–85.DFTDemeure: Fiction and Testimony, trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).DISDissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).DM“Double mémoire,” followed by “La vieille Europe et la nôtre,” in Le Théâtre des idées: 50 penseurs pour comprendre le XXe siècle, ed. Nicolas Truong (Paris: Flammarion, 2008): 15–27.DMV“Du mot à la vie: Un dialogue entre Jacques Derrida et Hélène Cixous,” with Aliette Armel, Magazine Littéraire (April 2004): 22–29.DNGDerrida and Negative Theology, ed. Harold Coward and Toby Foshay (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992).DNSDeconstruction in a Nutshell, with John D. Caputo (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997).DPDeconstruction and Pragmatism, ed. 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(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).FL“Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority,” trans. Mary Quaintance, in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michael Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (New York: Routledge, 1992): 3–67.FK“Faith and Knowledge,” trans. Samuel Weber, in Religion, ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998): 1–78.FPU“Fidélité à plus d'un,” Cahiers Intersignes, 13 (1998): 221–265.FT“Following Theory,” in life.after.theory, ed. Michael Payne and John Schad (New York: Continuum, 2003): 1–51.FTAFrench Theory in America, ed. Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen (London: Routledge, 2011).FWTFor What Tomorrow…A Dialogue, trans. Jeff Fort (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004).GDThe Gift of Death, trans. David Wills (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).GD2The Gift of Death, 2nd edn, and Literature in Secret, trans. 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Notes on Contributors

Sabrina Aggleton is a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, where she is working on a doctoral dissertation that will examine the intersection of embodiment, intersubjectivity, and ethics in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Simone de Beauvoir. She holds a research assistantship in the ethics and sexual violence initiative at the Rock Ethics Institute and is the editorial assistant for Chiasmi International.

Recep Alpyağıl is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Theology, Istanbul University. He mainly studies chiasmatic relations and religious dimensions in the contemporary Continental Philosophy. He has written several Turkish books such as Deconstruction and Religion: From Derrida to Caputo.

Edward Baring is Assistant Professor in Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History at Drew University. He is the author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas for Best Book in Intellectual History, and editor with Peter E. Gordon of The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion (Fordham University Press, 2014). He is currently working on a Europe-wide history of phenomenology in the first half of the twentieth century.

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University, and Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Kingston University in London. His books include Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2013); Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks (Continuum, 2010); and Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School. He is the author of 15 books and over 100 articles and chapters on philosophical and literary-theoretical topics. His most recent books are Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Géographie et autres lectures (Hermann, 2011). With Peggy Kamuf, he is General Editor of the English language edition of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series at the University of Chicago Press. His translations of the first two volumes of the seminars to appear, The Beast and the Sovereign I and II, were published in 2009 and 2011. He is currently working on a book of deconstructive political philosophy tentatively entitled Scatter.

Robert Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Penn State University. He has published numerous articles on both Levinas and Derrida, as well as other figures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. He is the author most recently of How to Read Sartre (2007) and co-editor of a number of collections on Levinas as well as Derrida and Différance (1985). He has also published extensively on issues associated with the genealogy of racism and is a co-editor of the new journal Critical Philosophy of Race.

Louise Burchill holds the position of Visiting Lecturer in Contemporary French Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Feminist Thought in the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her research and publications focus on subjects such as “the feminine” in contemporary French philosophy, the notion of “space” in the work of Deleuze and Derrida, translation and philosophy, and the intersection of philosophy and the visual arts (notably film and architecture). She is the translator of many essays by Julia Kristeva as well as of Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, Second Manifesto for Philosophy, and Philosophy and the Event. She is to publish in 2014 a book provisionally entitled Badiou's “Woman”: Sexuate Ventures with the Universal.

John D. Caputo works in the area of continental philosophy and theology. He is the author, among several other works, of The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (1997) and The Weakness of the Event: On a Theology of the Event (2006), winner of the 2007 American Academy of Religion Book Award in “Constructive Theology.” He is currently completing a book entitled The Insistence of God: A Theology of “Perhaps.”

Tina Chanter is Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University in London. She is author of Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery (SUNY Press, 2011), The Picture of Abjection: Film Fetish and the Nature of Difference (Indiana University Press, 2008), Gender (Continuum, 2006), Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger (Stanford University Press, 2001), and Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Re-writing of the Philosophers (Routledge, 1995). She is also the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas (Penn State University Press, 2001), and co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (SUNY Press, 2005), and of Sarah Kofman's Corpus (SUNY Press, 2008). She is co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, The Returns of Antigone, and her book, Art, Politics and Rancière: Seeing Things Anew, will appear with Continuum. In addition, she edits the Gender Theory series at SUNY Press.

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written on poetry, literary theory, feminist philosophy, and the work of Gilles Deleuze. Her most recent book is Theory and the Disappearing Future, co-authored with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller (Routledge, 2012). She is currently completing a book on extinction and the geological sublime.

Olivia Custer completed her Doctorat d'Université at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, working on Kant's critical philosophy under the supervision of Jacques Derrida. After occupying positions at the American University in Paris and the Collège International de Philosophie, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities at Bard College (New York) from 2007 to 2012. She currently lives in Paris. Her research interests gravitate around the question of how to take up Kant's philosophical legacy; this involves both revisiting Kant's work to articulate the multiple strands of his thought and identifying the Kantian references used to frame contemporary issues in moral and political philosophy. From a critical perspective informed particularly by the work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, her recent work investigates the language and narratives of Human Rights discourse. Author of L'exemple de Kant (Peeters, 2012), and co-author of Sexualités, genres et mélancholie (Campagne Première, 2009). Other publications include articles published in Kant after Derrida (Clinamen, 2003), Derrida: Critical Assessments (Routledge, 2002), and Critique.

Françoise Dastur is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. She has published over 15 books on various aspects of phenomenology, in particular, on death and time, and on several figures within the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Several of her books have been translated into English. The most recent to appear is How Are We to Confront Death? (Fordham University Press, 2012).

Penelope Deutscher is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and co-director of its Critical Theory Cluster. She is the author of four books in the areas of twentieth-century French philosophy and gender studies, including Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (Routledge, 1997), A Politics of Impossible Difference (Cornell University Press, 2002), How to Read Derrida (Granta, 2005), and The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She is currently completing Foucault's Children: Biopolitics as the Life and Death of Reproductive Futurism. Her articles on Foucault, reproduction, and biopolitics, have appeared in Theory, Culture and Society; Telos; Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; South Atlantic Quarterly; and Angelaki.

Maxime Doyon earned his Ph.D. from the Husserl-Archiv of the Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at McGill University between 2009 and 2013. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université de Montréal. His publications and research interests lie mainly in philosophy of perception, phenomenology, and post-Kantian transcendental philosophy.

Fred Evans is Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator for the Center of Interpretive and Qualitative Research at Duquesne University. He is the author of The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity (Columbia University Press, 2009), Psychology and Nihilism: A Genealogical Critique of the Computational Model of Mind (SUNY Press, 1993), and co-editor (with Leonard Lawlor) of Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh (SUNY Press, 2000). Evans has published numerous articles and book chapters on continental thinkers in relation to issues concerning psychology, politics, and technology. He is currently working on a new book, provisionally entitled Citizenship and Public Art: An Essay in Political Esthetics, focusing on Chicago's Millennium Park and New York's 9/11/01 memorial, and another book, this one on cosmopolitanism. He also worked for five years at the Lao National Orthopedic Center and other positions in Laos, under the auspices of International Voluntary Services, and taught philosophy for a year at La Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia.

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His books include Die hybride Wissenschaft (Metzler, 1973); System und Metaphorik in der Philosophie von Georges Bataille (Lang, 1978); The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (Harvard University Press, 1986); Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida (Harvard University Press, 1994); The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man (Harvard University Press, 1998); Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation (Stanford University Press, 1999); The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetic (Stanford University Press, 2003); Views and Interviews: On “Deconstruction” in America (The Davies Group, 2006); The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2007); Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (Stanford University Press, 2009); Un arte muy frágil: Sobre la retórica de Aristóteles, trans. Rogenio Gonzalez (Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2010); The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation (Fordham University Press, 2011); Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Stanford University Press, 2012). A new book, Geophilosophy: On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's What is Philosophy? is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2014.

Gary Gutting teaches at Notre Dame University, where he holds the Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Philosophy. He is the author of seven books: Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism (Notre Dame University Press, 1982); Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason (Cambridge University Press, 1989); Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1999); French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005); What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2009); and Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has co-authored or edited another six volumes. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone.

Samir Haddad is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy (Indiana University Press, 2013).

Martin Hägglund is a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. In English, he is the author of Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Among her most recent books are Book of Addresses (Stanford University Press, 2005) and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Her essays on literary theory, the university, and deconstruction have appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States, Canada, Britain, and throughout Europe. She has coordinated the Derrida Seminars Translation Project and is co-editor, with Geoffrey Bennington, of the series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida at the University of Chicago Press.

Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. He is the author of seven books, the most recent of which is Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2011). He is one of the co-editors and co-founders of Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty. He has translated Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Hyppolite into English. He has written dozens of articles on Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Bergson, and Merleau-Ponty. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon(forthcoming, 2014). Lawlor is currently working on a new book called Violence against Violence.

Pierre Legrand teaches law at the Sorbonne where he acts as director of postgraduate studies in globalization and legal pluralism.

Patrick Llored publishes on animal philosophy and contemporary European thought, particularly regarding the works of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Agamben, and Sloterdijk. His recent books include: Jacques Derrida: Politique et éthique de l'animalité (Sils Maria, 2013), Apprendre à philosopher avec Derrida (Ellipses, 2013). He is preparing two books for 2014: Zoophilosophie politique: Traité de démocratie animale and Qu'est-ce que la zoopolitique? L'animal dans la politique moderne. He is professor of philosophy at Lyon and member of the Institut de recherches philosophiques de Lyon (IRPHIL) de l'Université Jean Moulin Lyon III.

J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus at the University of California at Irvine. He has published many books and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His recent books include The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz (Chicago University Press, 2011) and Reading for Our Time: Adam Bede and Middlemarch (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). He co-authored, with Claire Colebrook and Tom Cohen, Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin (Routledge, 2011). A new book Communities in Fiction, with essays on novels by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes, is forthcoming. Miller is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Ann V. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary (SUNY Press, 2012) and several articles on continental philosophy, political philosophy, and gender theory.

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. He works in the areas of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Contemporary French Philosophy. He is the author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy – A Reading of Homer's Iliad (Humanities Press, 1995), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Stanford University Press, 2003), Derrida From Now On (Fordham University Press, 2008), and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (Fordham University Press, 2012). He is the co-editor of Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and co-translator, with Pascale-Anne Brault, of several works by Derrida, including The Other Heading (Indiana University Press, 1992), Memoirs of the Blind (University of Chicago Press, 1993), Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford University Press, 1999), Rogues (Stanford University Press, 2005), and Learning to Live Finally (Melville House, 2007). He also co-edits The Oxford Literary Review.

Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff, Wales, where he previously taught English Literature. He has written more than 30 books on aspects of philosophy and literary theory, among them Re-Thinking the Cogito: Naturalism, Reason and the Venture of Thought (Continuum, 2011) and Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative (Continuum, 2012). His most recent publications are Philosophy Outside-In: A Critique of Academic Reason (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and The Cardinal's Dog and Other Poems (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2013), a collection of verse-essays on philosophical, musical, and literary themes.

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She has published over 100 articles and over 20 books, including: Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment (Fordham University Press, 2013); Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film (Columbia University Press, 2012); Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human (Columbia University Press, 2009); Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (Columbia University Press, 2007); The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression (University of Minnesota Press, 2004); Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (University of Minnesota Press, 2001); Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998); Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture (Routledge, 1997); Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relation to the “Feminine” (Routledge, 1995); and Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind (Indiana University Press, 1993). She has edited or co-edited several books. Her forthcoming book is entitled Earth and World.

François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He was a pupil at the École Normale Supérieure and holds a Doctorate in Philosophy from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Jacques Derrida, advisor). He is the author of Heidegger and the Subject (Prometheus Books, 1999), À chaque fois mien (Galilée, 2004), and The Origins of Responsibility (Indiana University Press, 2010), and is at work on a new monograph tentatively titled Thinking the Event. He is the co-editor of several volumes, Disseminating Lacan (SUNY Press, 1996), Heidegger and Practical Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2002), Rethinking Facticity (SUNY Press, 2008), French Interpretations of Heidegger (SUNY Press, 2008), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2013). He has co-translated several French philosophers, in particular Jacques Derrida (“Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce,” in Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts, SUNY Press, 2013) and Jean-Luc Nancy (The Title of the Letter: a Reading of Lacan, SUNY Press, 1992, The Gravity of Thought, Prometheus, 1998, The Creation of the World or Globalization, SUNY Press, 2007, and Identity, Fordham University Press, forthcoming). He is the co-editor of a book series at SUNY Press, Contemporary French Thought.

Elizabeth Rottenberg is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and an advanced candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a founding member of the Derrida Seminars Translation Project and is currently completing the translation of Jacques Derrida's The Death Penalty, vol. II. She is the author of Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert (Stanford University Press, 2005) and has translated books by Lyotard, Derrida, and Blanchot. She is the editor and translator of Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews (1971–2001) by Jacques Derrida (Stanford University Press, 2001) as well as the co-editor (with Peggy Kamuf) of the two-volume edition of Jacques Derrida's Psyche: Inventions of the Other (Stanford University Press, 2007/2008).

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, England. He is the author of numerous books, including Telepathy and Literature: Essays on the Reading Mind (Blackwell, 1991), After Derrida (Manchester University Press, 1995), Deconstructions: A User's Guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, as editor), The Uncanny (Manchester University Press, 2003), Jacques Derrida (Routledge, 2003), In Memory of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and Veering: A Theory of Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2011). He has also published a novel, Quilt (Myriad Editions, 2010). He is an editor of the Oxford Literary Review and director of the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought at Sussex.

Kas Saghafi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Apparitions – Of Derrida's Other (Fordham University Press, 2010), the editor of the Spindel Supplement “Derrida and the Theologico-political” of the Southern Journal of Philosophy (2012), the co-editor of the Derrida special issue of Epoché (2006), and co-translator of several articles by Derrida.

Björn Thorsteinsson holds a doctorate from Université Paris VIII (Vincennes-St. Denis). He is the author of La question de la justice chez Jacques Derrida (L'Harmattan, 2007) and has published widely on poststructuralism, phenomenology, and ontology, for example, in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology (Routledge, 2011). He is a research scholar at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Iceland.

Gert-Jan van der Heiden holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Groningen, 2003) and Philosophy (Nijmegen, 2008). He is Assistant Professor and NWO-Veni Fellow at Radboud University Nijmegen. He recently published The Truth (and Untruth) of Language (Duquesne University Press, 2010).

Ben Vedder studied Theology (Utrecht) and Philosophy (Leuven). He is Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion at Radboud University Nijmegen. Among other publications in the field of hermeneutics and philosophy of religion, he published Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion, From God to the Gods (Duquesne University Press, 2007).

Introduction

Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor

Companions need to provide good introductions to the basic concepts and problems in a philosopher's works, and Part I of this Companion to Derrida introduces and clarifies concepts such as truth; the transcendental; difference; deconstruction; ethics; time and history; signature; and remainder. Part II aims to help the reader to see how Derrida's philosophical reflection is conjoined not only to other thinkers such as Plato, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, Althusser, Barthes, de Man, Heidegger, and Nancy, but also to other philosophical movements and ideas: psychoanalysis; cinema and photography; feminism; religion (Christian and Islamic); and education. Finally, Part III indicates areas of investigation that Derrida's thought has inspired or within which his thinking might be inserted: animal studies; forgiveness; cosmopolitanism; violence; and the law. Overall, we wanted to show that, by disturbing classical ways of doing research and investigation, Derrida's thinking (deconstruction) occupies subversive positions.

Undoubtedly, Derrida's writing was an explosion of revolutionary energy from within the formal educational machinery of the French Academy. What made it so interesting in the 1960s and 1970s was that, on the one hand, it was fully immersed in the traditional philosophical methodology. However, on the other hand, it aimed to show that this approach might be missing what matters. It misses what is at stake in the philosophical corpus of which the most traditional approaches and procedures speak. Stemming from his immersion in the traditional techniques of reading and writing found in the French institutions of philosophy, Derrida formulated his fundamental philosophical question as a question of writing. Calling for a step beyond the knowhow of explanatory dissection of texts, Derrida's new notion of writing moved towards an experience of the trace that indicates the dynamic play of the forces that constitute texts. As Sarah Kofman has said, Derrida attempted to psychoanalyze texts by attending to their ambivalences, displacements, condensations, anxieties, and defense mechanisms. He aimed to show that writing in the sense of archi-writing has been repressed and is the repressed. Metaphysics aimed at separating the good object from the bad ones by desiring purity, integrity, original innocence. It fed the faith in the possibility of having access to the totality of real objects by way of controlling the interiorized ones. As an unheimlich concept, Derridian writing unrelentingly repeats patricide in order to liberate logos from its subjection to the norms of the metaphysics of presence (Kofman 1984, 114).

Derrida's statement found in Of Grammatology “There is nothing outside the text” (Il n'y a pas de hors-texte