Companion to Derrida

Zeynep Direk teaches contemporary philosophy and ethics at Koç University, Istanbul. She has written numerous essays in Contemporary European philosophy and edited 10 books in Turkish on Levinas, Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, in addition to editing collections of essays and journal issues on gender and race theory. Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University, USA.  He is the author of several books including: Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy (2011) and This is not Sufficient: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (2007). He is one of the co-editors and co-founders of the journal Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.

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• List of Abbreviations (Works by Derrida) ixNotes on Contributors xvIntroduction 1Zeynep Direk and Leonard LawlorPart I Fundamental Themes and Concepts in Derrida’s Thought 211 Truth in Derrida 23Christopher Norris2 A Certain Truth: Derrida’s Transformation of the Kantian Heritage 42Olivia Custer3 Difference 57Claire Colebrook4 The Obscurity of “Différance” 72Gary Gutting5 Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida 89Geoffrey Bennington6 The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics 105Kelly Oliver7 Deconstruction 122Leonard Lawlor8 The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction 132Maxime Doyon9 Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics 150Björn Thorsteinsson10 Derrida’s Radical Atheism 166Martin Hägglund11 Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction 179Françoise Dastur12 I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida’s Work 194Peggy Kamuf13 An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida 207Rodolphe GaschéPart II Derrida and . . . 22914 Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) 231Michael Naas15 There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek: The Strange Dialogue Between Levinas and Derrida 251Robert Bernasconi16 The Crystallization of the Impossible: Derrida and Merleau-Ponty at the Threshold of Phenomenology 269Sabrina Aggleton17 The Politics of Writing: Derrida and Althusser 287Edward Baring18 Derrida and Psychoanalysis 304Elizabeth Rottenberg19 Derrida and Barthes: Speculative Intrigues in Cinema, Photography, and Phenomenology 321Louise Burchill20 Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction 345J. Hillis Miller21 Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism 362Penelope Deutscher22 Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida 378Tina Chanter23 Art’s Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan 391Andrew Benjamin24 Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility 412François Raffoul25 On Faith and the Holy in Heidegger and Derrida 430Ben Vedder and Gert-Jan van der Heiden26 “Safe, Intact”: Derrida, Nancy, and the “Deconstruction of Christianity” 447Kas Saghafi27 Derrida and the Trace of Religion 464John D. Caputo28 Derrida and Islamic Mysticism: An Undecidable Relationship 480Recep Alpyaðýl29 Derrida and Education 490Samir HaddadPart III Areas of Investigation 50730 A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida 509Patrick Llored31 Poetry, Animality, Derrida 524Nicholas Royle32 On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation 537Ann V. Murphy33 Cosmopolitanism to Come: Derrida’s Response to Globalization 550Fred Evans34 The Flipside of Violence, or Beyond the Thought of Good Enough 565Leonard Lawlor35 Derrida/Law: A Differend 581Pierre LegrandBibliography of Secondary Sources on Derrida 599Index 605