Richard Rand is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). He has translated texts by Derrida and is the editor of Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties.

"This book, which includes a major piece by Derrida, may serve as a switching station, a relay that amplifies the legacy of deconstruction, demonstrating its continuing vitality and even more its necessary relevance for the questions of politics and ethics that face us in the new century."—Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida "At its best moments. . . . this collection. . . . is no longer a representation of a label or a proper name, but a weave of exceedingly probing questions that traverses labels, legacies and proper names in an unexpected pattern."—Modern Language Notes

• 1. RIP Geoffrey Bennington 2. This contradiction Paul Davies 3. History of the lie: prolegomena Jacques Derrida (translated by Peggy Kamuf) 4. Out of the blue: secrecy, radical evil, and the crypt of faith Peter Fenves 5. Lingua amissa: the messianism of commodity-language and Derrida's 'specters of Marx' Werner Hamacher (translated by Kelly Barry) 6. The 'music of the footure': future, ancient, fugitive Jean-Michel Rabate; 7. Elijah's futures Elisabeth Weber Notes.

Richard Rand is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). He has translated texts by Derrida and is the editor of Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties.

"This book, which includes a major piece by Derrida, may serve as a switching station, a relay that amplifies the legacy of deconstruction, demonstrating its continuing vitality and even more its necessary relevance for the questions of politics and ethics that face us in the new century."—Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida "At its best moments. . . . this collection. . . . is no longer a representation of a label or a proper name, but a weave of exceedingly probing questions that traverses labels, legacies and proper names in an unexpected pattern."—Modern Language Notes

• 1. RIP Geoffrey Bennington 2. This contradiction Paul Davies 3. History of the lie: prolegomena Jacques Derrida (translated by Peggy Kamuf) 4. Out of the blue: secrecy, radical evil, and the crypt of faith Peter Fenves 5. Lingua amissa: the messianism of commodity-language and Derrida's 'specters of Marx' Werner Hamacher (translated by Kelly Barry) 6. The 'music of the footure': future, ancient, fugitive Jean-Michel Rabate; 7. Elijah's futures Elisabeth Weber Notes.

Richard Rand is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). He has translated texts by Derrida and is the editor of Logomachia: The Conflict of the Faculties.

"This book, which includes a major piece by Derrida, may serve as a switching station, a relay that amplifies the legacy of deconstruction, demonstrating its continuing vitality and even more its necessary relevance for the questions of politics and ethics that face us in the new century."—Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida "At its best moments. . . . this collection. . . . is no longer a representation of a label or a proper name, but a weave of exceedingly probing questions that traverses labels, legacies and proper names in an unexpected pattern."—Modern Language Notes

• 1. RIP Geoffrey Bennington 2. This contradiction Paul Davies 3. History of the lie: prolegomena Jacques Derrida (translated by Peggy Kamuf) 4. Out of the blue: secrecy, radical evil, and the crypt of faith Peter Fenves 5. Lingua amissa: the messianism of commodity-language and Derrida's 'specters of Marx' Werner Hamacher (translated by Kelly Barry) 6. The 'music of the footure': future, ancient, fugitive Jean-Michel Rabate; 7. Elijah's futures Elisabeth Weber Notes.