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Overview
“This book, which includes a major piece by Derrida, may serve as a switching station, a relay that amplifies the legacy of deconstruction, demonstrating its continuing vitality and even more its necessary relevance for the questions of politics and ethics that face us in the new century.”—Gregory L. Ulmer, University of Florida
“At its best moments. . . . this collection. . . . is no longer a representation of a label or a proper name, but a weave of exceedingly probing questions that traverses labels, legacies and proper names in an unexpected pattern.”—Modern Language Notes
Synopsis
Seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction, address the millennial issue of our “futures,” “promises,” “prophecies,” “projects,” and “possibilities”—including the possibility that there may be no “future” at all. Speculative in every sense, these essays are marked by a common concern for the act of reading as it is practiced in the work of Jacques Derrida. The contributors—Geoffrey Bennington, Paul Davies, Peter Fenves, Werner Hamacher, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Elisabeth Weber, and Jacques Derrida himself—study a range of authors, including Pascal, Kant, Hegel, Leibniz, Marx, Benjamin, Koyré, Arendt, and Lacan.
Booknews
Deconstructionists offer speculative essays on futures, promises, prophecies, projects, and possibilities, linked by a common concern for the act of reading as it is practiced in the work of French thinker Derrida. The seven papers are from a 1995 symposium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, called to mark his 65th birthday. They are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)