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An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher's political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derrida's work became widely available in English in the late 1970s. While Derrida expounded political and ethical themes from the late 1980s on, there has been relatively little Anglo-American analysis of that later work or its relation to the philosopher's entire corpus. Filling a critical gap, this volume provides multiple perspectives on the political turn in Derrida's work, showing how deconstruction bears on political theory and real-world politics. The contributors include distinguished scholars of deconstruction whose thinking developed in close proximity to Derrida's, as well as leading political theorists and philosophers who engage Derrida's thought from further afield.The volume opens with a substantial introduction in which Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac survey Derrida's entire corpus and position his later work in relation to it. The remaining essays address the concerns that arise out of Derrida's analysis of politics and the conditions of the political, such as the meaning and scope of democracy, the limits of sovereignty, the relationship between the ethical and the political, the nature of responsibility, the possibility for committed political action, the implications of deconstructive thought for non-Western politics, and the future of nationalism in an era of globalization and declining state sovereignty. The collection is framed by original contributions from Helene Cixous and Judith Butler.Contributors. Etienne Balibar, Geoffrey Bennington, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Pheng Cheah, Helene Cixous, Rodolphe Gasche, Suzanne Guerlac, Marcel Henaff, Martin Jay, Anne Norton, Jacques Ranciere, Soraya Tlatli, Satoshi Ukai

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

16 janvier 2009

EAN13

9780822390091

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Literary theory

Derrida

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Derrida

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Edited by Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s DurhamandLondon 2009

Typeset in Carter + Cone Galliard by

Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-

Publication Data appear on the last

printed page of this book.

Satoshi Ukai’s piece was previously

published in French as ‘‘De beaux risques

ou l’esprit d’un paciﬁsme et son destin’’ in

Lademocratieàvenir

.∫Editions Galilée,

2004. Reprinted with permission.

Rodolphe Gasché’s piece previously appeared inirClInticayquir33, no. 2 (2007): 291–311.∫2007 by the University of Chicago. Reprinted

with permission.

part ii.Theà-venir:Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology

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Contents

part i.Openings

Acknowledgments

rodolphe gasché EuropeanMemories:JanPato˘ckaandJacquesDerrida on Responsibility

part iii.Responsibilities within and without Europe

étienne balibar Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser

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pheng cheah and suzanne guerlac Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political

pheng cheah The Untimely Secret of Democracy

geoffrey bennington Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity

wendy brown Sovereign Hesitations

hélène cixous Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You

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anne norton ‘‘Call me Ishmael’’

soraya tlatli Algeria as an Archive

satoshi ukai Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Paciﬁsm and Its Destiny

part iv.Between Ethics and Politics

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235

255

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marcel hénaff The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida’sTneviGeim

martin jay Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics

suzanne guerlac The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricoeur)

jacques rancière Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida

part v.Afterword

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judith butler Finishing, Starting

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

We are very grateful for the broad interdisciplinary support we received from the Berkeley community for the conference ‘‘Derrida and the Time of the Po-litical,’’ February 10–11, 2006. Speciﬁcally we would like to thank the depart-ments of Art History, Comparative Literature, English, French, German, Italian Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Rhetoric for contributions that made the conference possible. We would also like to thank the French Studies and Jurisprudence and Social Policy programs for their support, as well as the Dean of Letters and Sciences, the Maxine Elliot Funds, and the Townsend Center. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation to Elizabeth Waddell, Brooke Belisle, and Colin Dingler for their indispensable help with the conference and to Colin Dingler for his assistance in the preparation of the manuscript for this volume.

Introduction:

Derrida and the Time of the Political

pheng cheah and suzanne guerlac

The main purpose of this collection of essays is to o√er a critical assessment of Derrida’s later work on the political, with respect to its position within his entire corpus and to its contribution to the study of the political and politics. Skepticism concerning the importance of deconstruction for political think-ing has been widespread among American critics, especially those curious about the relation between deconstruction, Marxism, and socialist politics. The impatient series of questions that the American Frankfurt School social theorist Nancy Fraser posed at the beginning of her 1984 polemic is repre-sentative: ‘‘Does deconstruction have any political implications? Does it have any political signiﬁcance beyond the Byzantine and incestuous strug-gles it provoked in American academic lit crit departments? Is it possible— and desirable—to articulate a deconstructive politics? Why, despite the rev-olutionary rhetoric of his circa 1968 writings, and despite the widespread, often taken-for-granted assumption that he is ‘of the left,’ has Derrida so ∞ consistently, deliberately and dexterously avoided the subject of politics?’’ The essays in this volume engage with the multifarious ways in which deconstruction directly bears on the delimitation of the political sphere and the implications of Derrida’s thought for urgent instances of concrete poli-tics. Needless to say, considerable work has been done on the question of deconstruction and politics, and we can give only a very selective and brief indication of the existing secondary literature here. Partly in reaction to the overly literary focus of the now defunct Yale School, more politically minded literary theorists of a Leftist persuasion in the late 1970s and the 1980s, most notably Gayatri Spivak and Michael Ryan, sought to articulate deconstruc-tion together with Marxism, either by arguing for the usefulness of de-constructive concepts such asdi√éranceand trace for Marxist ideology cri-tique even as they tried to supplement deconstruction with critical social theory, or by reading Marx as a deconstructivistallnateavtertwho demon-≤ strated the ‘‘textual’’ character of value and the capitalist system. The implications of deconstruction for feminist theory and politics, espe-

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