Books by Jacques Derrida

""One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable." From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the âEcole des Hautes âEtudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a "problematic of lying" by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial, false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege, and blasphemy. Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history, and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato, Jankelâevitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts, Derrida explores diverse notions of the "evil" or malignancy of lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across different traditions"--

“Differancen er det ’frembringende’ moment ved forskellene, de konstituerede forskelles, det konstituerede sprogs, det fuldt færdige sprogsystems ’historie’ … Ja, der er meget gammelt i det, jeg har sagt. Det hele er sikkert gammelt. Det er Heraklit, jeg har refereret til i sidste instans.” Sådan falder ordene i et par af de svar, som Jacques Derrida (f. 1930) giver under debatten i Fransk filosofisk Selskab om hans foredrag Differance i januar 1968. Det er i sig selv et intenst, fortættet forsøg på at endevende den filosofiske tale om væren, det værende, nærværet, så fokus kommer på den differeren, der både adskiller og udsætter – og derved sætter forskelle i spil. Det er metafysikkens gamle værenstænkning med afsæt i en ’ubevæget bevæger’, en sidste (eller første) instans, der her får modspil af en anderledes dekonstruerende forskelstænkning. Det på flere måder skelsættende foredrag ledsages i denne udgave ved Søren Gosvig Olesen, der også giver en grundig introduktion, af den oprindelige diskussion og af den manchet, hvormed Derrida i sin tid indbød sit lærde publikum. Bogen genudgives i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere og udkom første gang på dansk i 2002.

"A new translation of Derrida's groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other"--

Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences

I Stemmen og Fænomenet gennemfører Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) en dekonstruktiv læsning af den tyske filosof Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). Bogen udkom oprindeligt på fransk i 1967 og i dansk oversættelse i 1997. Den har en indledning af lektor Adam Diderichsen.Derridas projekt er at vise, at Husserls sprogforståelse på væsentlig vis forudsætter den måde, hvorpå sproget altid er blevet tænkt i den vesterlandske metafysik.På trods af Husserls ønske om at starte forfra i filosofien er han således uhjælpeligt fanget i det spil, som han netop ikke vil spille, nemlig metafysikkens spil.

This book brings together five encounters. They include the date or signature and its singularity; the notion of the trace; structures of futurity and the "to come"; language and questions of translation; such speech acts as testimony and promising; the possibility of the impossible; and the poem as addressed and destined beyond knowledge.

Advances the author's reflections on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion.

In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art on Antonin Artaud. Artaud the Moma reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida-and to art and its institutional history. It is a powerful interjection into the museum halls, a crucial moment in Derrida's thought, and an insightful reading of a challenging writer and artist.

One of contemporary criticism's most indispensable works, Of Grammatology is made even more accessible and usable by this new release.

An excellent introduction to Derrida's remarkable contribution to literary studies comprising much of Derrida's writing on writers such as Shakespeare, Mallarme, Joyce and Kafka.

This book draws together essays that play in various ways upon questions involving books, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals.

This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, nationalism, politics, and Derrida's early life and the history of his writings.

Collecting the best of the author's work that was published in the "Critical Inquiry" journal between 1980 and 2002, this title provides an introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.

This dialogue, proposed to Derrida by the historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two longtime friends who share a common history and an intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are often different, they have many common reference points: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known outside France as "post-structuralist."

Presents a translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. This book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session.

ORIGINAL TEXT BY DERRIDA TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. In this book Derrida responds to the work, Dream I Tell You, by Helene Cixous.