M. Naas: “‘Alors, qui êtes-vous?’ Jacques Derrida and the Question of Hospitality”

Michael Naas engages Derrida’s notion of hospitality and inheritance by looking at Derrida’s writings and reflecting on his own personal encounters with Derrida. The central question “Alors qui êtes-vous?”or ‘who are you?’ marked the beginning of Naas’ first interaction with Derrida. Naas views this question as an invitation, not ‘who are [...]

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C. Wise: “Saying ‘Yes” to Africa: Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx.”

In “Saying ‘Yes” to Africa.” Wise critiques Derrida from an African perspective while critiquing the conference “Whither Marx?” at which he spoke. He speaks of the haunting of the conference by the absence of black African Marxist voices, at this “international” conference.According to Christopher Wise, Derrida deconstructs the form of the book itself with [...]

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C. Delacampagne: The Politics of Derrida: Revisiting the Past

Delacampagne writes a bird’s eye view of Derrida the political figure, through which his philosophy seems subject to a deconstruction similar to the one he practiced himself. The essay proclaims itself a check of Derrida’s politically active coherence, but the lens through which Delacampagne connotes judgment on his political character seems to violate the solidarity [...]

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J.C. Hayes: Unconditional Translation: Derrida’s Enlightenment-to-Come

Julie Candler Hayes’s Unconditional Translation: Derrida’s Enlightenment-to-Come focuses on the role of lumieres (enlightenment) in Derrida’s “metapolitical” thought. The a-venir (to-come) quality of Derrida’s democracy is, in his later work, extended to his concept of Enlightenment. The aporetic structure (or stricture) [...]

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L. Burns – Derrida and the promise of community

In his essay Derrida and the Promise of Community Lawrence Burns describes Derrida’s early work on the speech act in relationship to his later work on the function of the promise. Burns places this writing within a system of ethics and points out that Derrida’s deconstruction of the promise of writing is that it [...]

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Why politics exists..a quote by Jacques Ranciere

“Politics exists because those who have no right to be counted as speaking beings makes themselves of some account, setting up a community by placing in common a wrong that is nothing more than this very confrontation, the contradiction of two worlds in a single world: the world where they are and the world where [...]

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Disruption of the ‘Other’ and the Remainder of Politics

If the past couple of classes has been confusing to some of you guys and the Schmitt and Derrida connection is not quite clear. I put together an alternative connection to understand the disharmonies and relationship to Derrida and Carl Schmitt.The logical move of Schmitt’s “Concept of the Political”, I still contend Derrida has [...]

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An interview with Derrida on Specters of Marx and Politics of Friendship

Read the interview here…

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Can there be a politics without a horizon?

Can there be a politics without a horizon? Does opening to the “Other” bring to bear the possibility of engaging or imagining politics without boundaries? Before we answer this layered question concerning the political can we take a step back in ask what is a ‘horizon’ in politics? Is a political horizon defined or understood [...]

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Class Today

Okay, so I was really confused in class today about the first essay in The Politics of Friendship. I was wondering if people could try to help clarify what was said (or say new things) in response to my queries.

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