When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. Thinking with and against each other over the course of their long friendship, the two thinkers reshaped the European intellectual landscape. Nancy’s writings on Derrida, collected in this volume, reflect on the elements of their shared concerns with politics, the arts, religion, the fate of deconstruction, and the future of sense. Rather than studies, commentaries, or interpretations of Derrida’s thought, they are responses to his presence—not exactly a presence to self, but a presence in the world.
Table of Content
Prologue | 1
1 Elliptical Sense | 5
2 Borborygmi | 27
3 The Judeo-Christian | 44
4 Derrida in Strasbourg | 63
5 J.D. | 68
6 Parallel Differences: Deleuze and Derrida | 75
7 Derrida da capo | 88
8 Mad Derrida: Ipso facto cogitans ac demens | 95
9 The Independence of Algeria and the Independence of Derrida | 110
10 Eloquent Stripes | 115
11 Derrida disant dix | 121
12 A Differant Orientation | 124
13 Jouis anniversaire! “Scenes of the Inner Life”:
On the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Jacques Derrida | 131
14 Derridapolitics | 146
15 Homage to Jacques Derrida: An Interview with Laure Adler | 153
16 What Is Deconstruction? An Interview with Federico Ferrari | 161
Afterword : Nothing to See, Nothing to Do | 175
by Alexander García Düttmann
Notes | 185
Bibliography | 199
About the author
Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy.
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