The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar

Michael Naas

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar

Michael Naas

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823263318

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About this book

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign (2001-2003), as the explicit themes of the seminar, namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal, come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world.

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Naas Michael :

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).

Reviews

—Jeffrey Nealon:
“Naas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of Derrida’s work.”

—J. Hillis Miller:
“Michael Naas is one of the most authoritative interpreters anywhere of Jacques Derrida’s work. Naas’s writing about Derrida is characterized by a remarkable intellectual generosity. The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments is a brilliant reading of Derrida’s last seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign (2001-2003). Naas provides an exegesis of that seminar both in itself and in the light of an amazing in-depth knowledge of all Derrida’s previous work, back to its beginning in the 1960’s. This distinguished book is an essential guide for all those who are perplexed in one way or another by Derrida’s writings.”

—Kelly Oliver:
“The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments is a striking tribute to the end of the world that was Derrida, and it lives up to the responsibility of carrying forward what remains.”

—Peggy Kamuf:
“With his luminous and generous intelligence, Michael Naas makes the task of reading Derrida look easy. But that’s only because, like the finest of teachers, he takes us patiently through the difficulties and countenances bravely the disconcerting turns taken by this final seminar, what he calls its teachable moments. Naas’s clarity of thought, the acuteness of his ear, and the deftness of his writing are gifts that readers appreciate on every page. This book will be indispensable reading from now on for whoever attends to Derrida’s seminars."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Derrida’s Other Corpus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Derrida’s Flair (For the Animals to Follow . . . ) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. “If you could take just two books . . .” Derrida at the Ends of the World with Heidegger and Robinson Crusoe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. To Die a Living Death Phantasms of Burial and Cremation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4. Reinventing the Wheel Of Sovereignty, Autobiography, and Deconstruction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. Pray Tell Derrida’s Performative Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
6. Derrida’s Preoccupation with the Archive Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. “World, Finitude, Solitude” Derrida’s Walten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Conclusion: Désormais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Jacques Derrida; Deconstruction; Martin Heidegger; Death; Mourning; World; Animality; Sovereignty

eBook

Published: October 15, 2014
ISBN: 9780823263318