Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida) ix Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1 Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor
Part I Fundamental Themes and Concepts in Derrida’s Thought 21
1 Truth in Derrida 23 Christopher Norris
2 A Certain Truth: Derrida’s Transformation of the Kantian Heritage 42 Olivia Custer
3 Difference 57 Claire Colebrook
4 The Obscurity of “Différance” 72 Gary Gutting
5 Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida 89 Geoffrey Bennington
6 The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics 105 Kelly Oliver
7 Deconstruction 122 Leonard Lawlor
8 The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction 132 Maxime Doyon
9 Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics 150 Björn Thorsteinsson
10 Derrida’s Radical Atheism 166 Martin Hägglund
11 Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction 179 Françoise Dastur
12 I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida’s Work 194 Peggy Kamuf
13 An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida 207 Rodolphe Gasché
Part II Derrida and . . . 229
14 Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) 231 Michael Naas
15 There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek: The Strange Dialogue Between Levinas and Derrida 251 Robert Bernasconi
16 The Crystallization of the Impossible: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty at the Threshold of Phenomenology 269 Sabrina Aggleton
17 The Politics of Writing: Derrida and Althusser 287 Edward Baring
18 Derrida and Psychoanalysis 304 Elizabeth Rottenberg
19 Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology 321 Louise Burchill
20 Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction 345 J. Hillis Miller
21 Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism 362 Penelope Deutscher
22 Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida 378 Tina Chanter
23 Art’s Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan 391 Andrew Benjamin
24 Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility 412 François Raffoul
25 On Faith and the Holy in Heidegger and Derrida 430 Ben Vedder and Gert-Jan van der Heiden
26 “Safe, Intact”: Derrida, Nancy, and the “Deconstruction of Christianity” 447 Kas Saghafi
27 Derrida and the Trace of Religion 464 John D. Caputo
28 Derrida and Islamic Mysticism: An Undecidable Relationship 480 Recep Alpyaðýl
29 Derrida and Education 490 Samir Haddad
Part III Areas of Investigation 507
30 A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida 509 Patrick Llored
31 Poetry, Animality, Derrida 524 Nicholas Royle
32 On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation 537 Ann V. Murphy
33 Cosmopolitanism to Come: Derrida’s Response to Globalization 550 Fred Evans
34 The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good Enough 565 Leonard Lawlor
35 Derrida/Law: A Differend 581 Pierre Legrand
Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Derrida 599
Index 605