Thinking What Comes, Volume 1

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on literary and philosophical issues, and translator of many texts by Jacques Derrida and other French thinkers. His books include Late Lyotard (2005), Deconstruction is Not What You Think…(2005), Interrupting Derrida (2000) and, with Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida (1991). Kas Saghafi is Professor of Philosophy at University of Memphis. He researches and teaches in contemporary French thought. He is the author of two books, The World after the End of the World (2020) and Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other (2010) and numerous articles. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey Bennington, of a two-volume collection of Derrida’s writings entitled Thinking What Comes (2024). He has also co-translated, with Pleshette DeArmitt, four essays by Jacques Derrida.

This is a very welcome and timely addition to Derrida’s work in English. Bennington, Saghafi and their team of translators have made accessible these hard-to-find texts in which the philosopher clearly expounds his thinking on issues that have lost none of their urgency: hospitality and immigration, the future of Europe, the rights of Palestinians, censorship of the archive, and deconstruction as a ‘thinking of what comes’.

• Series Editor's Preface Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Part I: What Comes 1. Thinking What Comes (2007), Translated by Kas Saghafi and Chris Lucibella2. Substitutions (2001), Translated by Bradley Ramos3. Idioms, Nationalities, Deconstructions: Encounter with Jacques Derrida in Rabat (1998), Translated by Adam Rosenthal4. Message from Jacques Derrida (2002), Translated by Caleb Salgado5. The Future Anterior of the Archive (2002), Translated by Jacob Levi6. Derrida, Mandela, Politics, and the Market (2000), Translated by Caleb SalgadoPart II: Interviews Chapter 7: Jacques Derrida, Thinker of the Event (2004), Translated by Philippe LynesChapter 8: "If I can say more than one sentence" (2004), Translated by David WillsChapter 9: Conversation about the Collège International de Philosophie (1998), Translated by David MaruzzellaChapter 10: Hospitality ad infinitum (1999), Translated by Jacob LeviPart III: Europe Chapter 11: Thinking Europe at its Frontiers (1993), Translated by Caleb SalgadoChapter 12: Double Memory: "Old Europe" and Our Europe (2008), Translated by Caleb SalgadoIndex