D. Perpich: Universality, Singularity, and Sexual Difference: Reflections on Political Community

This article is useful for any of you seeking to bring dimensions of gender into Derrida’s discussions of political community, specifically the impasse between universality and singularity, and the undecidability of justice. For Diane Perpich, critical engagement with the notion of sexual difference in relation to political desire opens up possibilities to move beyond (if [...]

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P. Damai: Messianic City: Ruins, Refuge and Hospitality in Derrida

Central to Puspa Damai’s article on the Messianic-City is the concept of hospitality. It is inextricable from the Derridian concept of a “city of refuge” and what Derrida sees as the intent of a city. Ruin, the threat of ruin and asylum are [...]

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Our Adversaries, Our Friends

Reprinted, reposted from The Public Humanist (blog of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities)
I’ve been teaching about friendship for the past couple of weeks – Jacques Derrida’s utterly enigmatic Politics of Friendship, to be specific – so I was thrilled to read a reflection by my cross-campus colleague Robert Meagher on where friendship might lead [...]

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