Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy
Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy
Edinburgh University Press | August 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0748625461 | 256 pages | PDF | 1.03 MB
Edinburgh University Press | August 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0748625461 | 256 pages | PDF | 1.03 MB
The death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 represented a major interruption in contemporary intellectual life. This death calls for an engagement with Derrida's work and an attempt to understand his legacy. Such a discussion is fraught with tension between remaining faithful after death and putting Derrida's writing to work in new directions, posing challenges and exposing limitations. In short this legacy is, necessarily, a negotiation. The aim of this book is to grapple with this specific theme and to explore the implications of Derrida's death for the future of critical thought itself.