Psyche

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Paper Machine (2005), On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy (2005), Rogues (2005), Eyes of the University (2004), For What Tomorrow... with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2004), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2004), Negotiations (2002), Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by Stanford University Press.

"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work." —Michael Naas, DePaul University "This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought." —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory University

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii Editors' Forewordiii Author's Prefaceiii @toc2:1Psyche: Invention of the Other0 2The Retrait of Metaphor00 3What Remains by Force of Music00 4To Illustrate, He Said000 5Envoi000 6Me--Psychoanalysis000 7At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am000 8Des tours de Babel000 9Telepathy000 10Ex abrupto000 11The Deaths of Roland Barthes000 12An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter"000 13Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world"000 14My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies000 15Racism's Last Word000 16No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives000 @toc4:Notes000