Thinking What Comes, Volume 2

Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions

Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi

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Edinburgh University Press
31 March 2024

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literature: history & criticism; History of Western philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida's untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. Dating mostly from 1992 to 2004, these writings offer a fuller picture of Derrida's biography, theoretical engagements and the stakes of his social and political investments. Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions by Jacques Derrida: Thinking What Comes, Volume 2 collects Derrida's writings on friends including Emmanuel Levinas, Alain David, Louis Marin, Marie-Louise Mallet, Safaa Fathy, Mathieu Bnzet and Jos Joliet. It also features interviews that illuminate his experience at school, his writing habits, the relation he saw between philosophical discourse to the 'poetic', and his views on the singularity of literature and fiction. Whether writing about racism and anti-Semitism, filiation and fidelity, or hospitality and responsibility, Derrida is razor-sharp and impassioned. These volumes allow significant insight into his mature thought.

By: Jacques Derrida
Edited by: Geoffrey Bennington, Kas Saghafi
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 504g
ISBN: 9781474410731
ISBN 10: 1474410731
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 31 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on literary and philosophical issues, and translator of many texts by Jacques Derrida and other French thinkers. His books include Late Lyotard (2005), Deconstruction is Not What You Think...(2005), Interrupting Derrida (2000) and, with Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida (1991). Kas Saghafi is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.

Reviews for Thinking What Comes, Volume 2: Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions

This superb collection contains some of Derrida's most compelling interviews and essays on literature, theater, music, sexual difference, and racism, as well as some of his most personal reflections on friendship, his early childhood and education in Algeria, his fraught relation to academic institutions, his unique philosophical itinerary, and his inimitable practice of writing. --Michael Naas, DePaul University