Derrida, Supplements

by Jean-Luc Nancy, Anne O'Byrne (Translator)

Overview

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. Thinking with and against each other over the course of their long friendship, the two thinkers reshaped the European intellectual landscape. Nancy’s writings on Derrida, collected in this volume, reflect on the elements of their shared concerns with politics, the arts, religion, the fate of deconstruction, and the future of sense. Rather than studies, commentaries, or interpretations of Derrida’s thought, they are responses to his presence—not exactly a presence to self, but a presence in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531503390
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	530 KB

About the Author

Jean-Luc Nancy (Author)
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universityé Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His “The Intruder” was adapted into a film by Claire Denis.

Anne O'Byrne (Translator)
Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, SUNY. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy.

Table of Contents

Prologue | 1

1 Elliptical Sense | 5

2 Borborygmi | 27

3 The Judeo-Christian | 44

4 Derrida in Strasbourg | 63

5 J.D. | 68

6 Parallel Differences: Deleuze and Derrida | 75

7 Derrida da capo | 88

8 Mad Derrida: Ipso facto cogitans ac demens | 95

9 The Independence of Algeria and the Independence of Derrida | 110

10 Eloquent Stripes | 115

11 Derrida disant dix | 121

12 A Differant Orientation | 124

13 Jouis anniversaire! “Scenes of the Inner Life”:
On the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Jacques Derrida | 131

14 Derridapolitics | 146

15 Homage to Jacques Derrida: An Interview with Laure Adler | 153

16 What Is Deconstruction? An Interview with Federico Ferrari | 161

Afterword: Nothing to See, Nothing to Do | 175
by Alexander García Düttmann

Notes | 185

Bibliography | 199

Editorial Reviews

Derrida, Supplements provides ‘new access’ not only to the work of Jacques Derrida but also to what deconstruction will have meant to Jean-Luc Nancy, that is, to one of the twentieth century’s great thinkers of politics, of plurality, and of the community.

DePaul University Elizabeth Rottenberg

Nancy’s text fascinates because it is not simply an analysis, a text written on or about Derrida, but also an act of memory, a testimonial to a life lived.

Brown University Marc Redfield