Im Licht der Wiederkehr des Religisen und seiner weltweiten Konjunktur erfhrt die Religion ihre philosophische Nobilitierung jenseits der tradierten Dichotomie von Mythos und Aufklrung. Die Beitrge von Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, Maurizio Ferraris, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Aldo Giorgio Gargani, Eugenio Tras und Vincenzo Vitiello dokumentieren eine kardinale Wende der zeitgenssischen Philosophie.

This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to their own pasts. More than a literary text with critical commentary, it constitutes an event of central significance for contemporary philosophical, literary, and political concerns. The book consists of The Instant of My Death, a powerful short prose piece by Blanchot, and an extended essay by Derrida that reads it in the context of...

"Limited Inc "is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of Derrida's most controversial idea, that linguistic meaning is fundamentally indeterminate because the contexts that fix meaning are never stable. "Limited Inc" includes an important new afterword by the author.

"Originally published in French in 1982, this collection is a good representation of the range of Derrida's working styles."-South Atlantic Review "No writer has probed the riddle of the Other with more patience and insight than Jacques Derrida. . . . By rigorously interrogating the writings of major Western figures, Derrida not only forces a rethinking of the nature of reading and writing but calls into question basic as-sumptions about ourselves and our world. . . . The Ear of the Other will be especially useful to people who have little or no prior acquaintance with Derrida's work. . . ....

Wir leben seit dem 11. September 2001 im Zeitalter der Schurkenstaaten. Dieser Begriff eröffnet grundlegende politische Fragen wie die nach staatlicher Souveränität, aber auch nach den politischen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Vereinten Nationen, ja nach der Demokratie als solcher. "Was geschieht", so fragt Derrida, "mit den Begriffen der 'Politik', des 'Kriegs' und des 'Terrorismus', wenn das alte Gespenst der staatlichen Souveränität seine Glaubwürdigkeit verliert?" Zwischen Globalisierung und staatlicher Souveränität, dem Recht der Macht und der Macht des Rechts, Schurkenstaaten...

In this stimulating and often startling book, Derrida examines the various -resistances- to analysis-conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself. The book comprises three essays devoted to Freud, Lacan, and Foucault.

This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death. For both thinkers, the word adieu names a fundamental characteristic of human being: the salutation or benediction prior to all constative language (in certain circumstances, one can say adieu at the moment of meeting) and that given at the moment of separation, sometimes forever, as at the moment of death, it is also the a-dieu, for God or to God before and in any relation to...

What should we make of the return to the sacred evidenced by the new vitality of churches, sects, and religious beliefs in many parts of the world today? What are the boundaries between the essential traits of religion and those of ethics and justice? Is there a "truth" to religion? This remarkable volume includes reflections on such questions by three of the most important philosophers of our time--Jacques Derrida, Gianni Vattimo, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Together with other distinguished thinkers, they address a wide range of questions about the meaning, status, and future prospects of...

This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes of the archive when the world of paper is subsumed in new machines for virtualization, and whether there can be a virtual event or a virtual archive. Derrida continues his long-standing investigation of these issues, and ties them into the new themes that governed his teaching and thinking in the past few years: the secret, pardon, perjury,...

"For what tomorrow will be, no one knows," writes Victor Hugo.

This dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by the historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two longtime friends who share a common history and an intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are often different, they have many common reference points: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known outside France as "post-structuralist."

Beginning with a revealing glance back at the French intellectual scene over the past forty years, Derrida and Roudinesco go on to...