Negotiations

Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001

By: Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Rottenberg (Editor)

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This collection of essays and interviews encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over a 30-year period. The texts shed light on his work and should be useful to scholars in many disciplines - politics, philosophy, history, cultural studies, literature, and a range of interdisciplinary programmes. Derrida's arguments vary in their responsiveness to given political questions - sometimes they are vivid polemics on behalf of a position or figure, sometimes they are reflective analyses of a philosophical problem. They are united by the recurrent question of political decision or responsibility and the insistence that the apparent simplicity or programmatic character of political decision is in fact a profound avoidance of the political. This volume testifies to the possibility and the necessity of a philosophical politics. The work assembles some of the most telling examples of the intrinsic relationship, so often affirmed by Derrida in more abstract philosophic terms, between deconstructivist reading practices and what is called the "political" - more precisely, politics in an almost down-to-earth, pragmatic and commonsense use of the word. Among the many subjects covered are: the death penalty in the United States; the civil war in Algeria; globalization and cosmopolitanism; the American Declaration of Independence; Jean-Paul Sartre; the value of objectivity; politics and friendship; and the relationship between deconstruction and actuality.

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"Edited and translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg, this collection is particularly valuable in two respects: first, nearly all of the interviews and essays included in this collection have never been published in English, and they offer insight into Derrida's work that those of us whose French is mediocre have not had the chance to appreciate; second, and perhaps more importantly, there is also an interesting conceptual integrity to this book that revolves around the problem of negotiation as it comes to bear on both ethics and politics (and on the process of writing itself). - Irene E. Harvey, Penn State University "This is truly a long-awaited volume." - The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "Naas' performance is to be greatly admired and his patient close-reading is both instructive and inspirational." - The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

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Introduction: Inheriting the Future	p. 1
Negotiations
Negotiations	p. 11
Letter to Jean Genet (Fragments)	p. 41
Declarations of Independence	p. 46
What I Would Have Said ...	p. 55
Economies of the Crisis	p. 69
Events? What Events?	p. 74
"Pardon me for taking you at your word"	p. 77
The Deconstruction of Actuality	p. 85
Taking Sides for Algeria	p. 117
For Mumia Abu-Jamal	p. 125
Open Letter to Bill Clinton	p. 130
Derelictions of the Right to Justice	p. 133
Thinking at its Limits
Politics and Friendship	p. 147
The Aforementioned So-Called Human Genome	p. 199
Nietzsche and the Machine	p. 215
"Dead Man Running": Salut, Salut	p. 257
Ethics and Politics Today
Ethics and Politics Today	p. 295
On the "Priceless," or the "Going Rate" of the Transaction	p. 315
The Right to Philosophy from a Cosmopolitan Point of View	p. 329
As If It Were Possible, "Within Such Limits" ...	p. 343
Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism	p. 371
Notes	p. 387
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