Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, ValÉry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize.

“[An] indispensable collection. . . What is particularly remarkable about this collection is the fact that its introduction is one of the very finest, most penetrating, reliable, and lucid presentations of Derrida’s thought in general to have been published to date. This single fact merits inclusion of this volume in every serious general and academic collection; the introduction by Cheah and Guerlac will guide readers to the appropriate texts in Derrida’s oeuvre and to the relevant essays in the volume. Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above.” - N. Lukacher, Choice “The Introduction provides a thorough, thoughtful overview of the question of the political in Derrida’s writings and of the successive ways it was treated or approached in the decades before his death. It also quite convincingly gives an account of the way in which those motifs in his thought that might most obviously be related to political concerns (democracy, sovereignty, justice, law, hospitality and so on) are intimately connected to his more ‘philosophical concerns’. . . . [T]his is a provocative volume that deserves recognition as a major milestone in the longstanding debate about the political dimension of deconstructive thought.” - Ian James, French Studies “Derrida and the Time of the Political is the best edited volume available on Derrida and politics.” - Lasse Thomassen, Radical Philosophy Review “Derrida and the Time of the Political undoes once and for all the unproductive opposition between deconstruction and politics that has dominated the United States academy. This is a stellar collection. The pieces are diversified, not a commemorative gesture but a critical engagement. Careful theoretical parsing combines with detailed political awareness to make this book an authoritative document for understanding not only the later Derrida and political deconstruction but the problems and engagements of our time.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University “Derrida and the Time of the Political is the best edited volume available on Derrida and politics.” - Lasse Thomassen (Radical Philosophy Review) “[An] indispensable collection. . . What is particularly remarkable about this collection is the fact that its introduction is one of the very finest, most penetrating, reliable, and lucid presentations of Derrida’s thought in general to have been published to date. This single fact merits inclusion of this volume in every serious general and academic collection; the introduction by Cheah and Guerlac will guide readers to the appropriate texts in Derrida’s oeuvre and to the relevant essays in the volume. Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above.” - N. Lukacher (Choice)

• Acknowledgments vii1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1Part I. Openings Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274Part V. Afterword Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291Bibliography 307Contributors 323Index 327

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation and co-editor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.Suzanne Guerlac is Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson and Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, ValÉry, Breton, co-winner of the Modern Language Association’s Scaglione Prize.

“[An] indispensable collection. . . What is particularly remarkable about this collection is the fact that its introduction is one of the very finest, most penetrating, reliable, and lucid presentations of Derrida’s thought in general to have been published to date. This single fact merits inclusion of this volume in every serious general and academic collection; the introduction by Cheah and Guerlac will guide readers to the appropriate texts in Derrida’s oeuvre and to the relevant essays in the volume. Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above.” - N. Lukacher, Choice “The Introduction provides a thorough, thoughtful overview of the question of the political in Derrida’s writings and of the successive ways it was treated or approached in the decades before his death. It also quite convincingly gives an account of the way in which those motifs in his thought that might most obviously be related to political concerns (democracy, sovereignty, justice, law, hospitality and so on) are intimately connected to his more ‘philosophical concerns’. . . . [T]his is a provocative volume that deserves recognition as a major milestone in the longstanding debate about the political dimension of deconstructive thought.” - Ian James, French Studies “Derrida and the Time of the Political is the best edited volume available on Derrida and politics.” - Lasse Thomassen, Radical Philosophy Review “Derrida and the Time of the Political undoes once and for all the unproductive opposition between deconstruction and politics that has dominated the United States academy. This is a stellar collection. The pieces are diversified, not a commemorative gesture but a critical engagement. Careful theoretical parsing combines with detailed political awareness to make this book an authoritative document for understanding not only the later Derrida and political deconstruction but the problems and engagements of our time.”-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University “Derrida and the Time of the Political is the best edited volume available on Derrida and politics.” - Lasse Thomassen (Radical Philosophy Review) “[An] indispensable collection. . . What is particularly remarkable about this collection is the fact that its introduction is one of the very finest, most penetrating, reliable, and lucid presentations of Derrida’s thought in general to have been published to date. This single fact merits inclusion of this volume in every serious general and academic collection; the introduction by Cheah and Guerlac will guide readers to the appropriate texts in Derrida’s oeuvre and to the relevant essays in the volume. Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students and above.” - N. Lukacher (Choice)

• Acknowledgments vii1. Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political / Pheng Cheah and Suzanne Guerlac 1Part I. Openings Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You / Helene Cixous 41Part II. The a-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser / Etienne Balibar 57The Untimely Secret of Democracy / Pheng Cheah 74Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity / Geoffrey Bennington 97Sovereign Hesitations / Wendy Brown 114Part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe European Memories: Jan Patocka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility / Rodolphe Gasche 135"Call Me Ishmael" / Anne Norton 158Algeria as an Archive / Soraya Tlatli 177Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny / Satoshi Ukai 196Part IV. Between Ethics and Politics The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time / Marcel Henaff 215Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics / Martin Jay 235The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricouer) / Suzanne Guerlac 255Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida / Jacques Ranciere 274Part V. Afterword Finishing, Starting / Judith Butler 291Bibliography 307Contributors 323Index 327