Given Time II

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in translation by the University of Chicago Press. Laura Odello is visiting associate professor of French and francophone studies and Italian studies at Brown University. She has translated many of Derrida’s works into Italian. Peter Szendy is the David Herlihy University Professor of Comparative Literature and the Humanities at Brown University. His many books include The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images. Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author of several books on Derrida and translator of many others by him, and he is coeditor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida series. Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She is coeditor of The Seminar of Jacques Derrida series.

“Derrida stated in Given Time I that the seminar laid bare the premises of a problematic central to his work, but it is only now that readers have access to the full range of premises indicating places of his divergence from Heidegger, among them: Heidegger’s evaluations of narrative, Husserl’s thing, Kant’s moral laws, the proper. In the precise, highly readable English of the translation, this volume facing off these two foremost philosophers will be a welcome addition to every library of Derrida."

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