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This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to contemporary philosophy.

This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to contemporary philosophy.Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy-as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy's traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive topic for any deconstructive approach t...

Since the death of Jacques Derrida in 2004, Geoffrey Bennington, a close friend and collaborator, has elucidated the philosopher's complex thought, especially his persistent interrogation of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what Derrida sometimes called "half-mourning." Bennington relates this "ethical" interruption of mourning to the persistent but still ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it is argued here, is ...

Since the death of Jacques Derrida in 2004, Geoffrey Bennington, a close friend and collaborator, has elucidated the philosopher's complex thought, especially his persistent interrogation of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what Derrida sometimes called "half-mourning." Bennington relates this "ethical" interruption of mourning to the persistent but still ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it is argued here, is ...

Interrupting Derrida" is a major new work by Geoffrey Bennington, internationally renowned Derrida scholar and translator of Derrida's work. This bold and provocative collection of essays surveys key themes in work by and about Derrida. Presenting a compelling challenge to influential readings of Derrida that have emerged from both the philosophical and literary traditions, Bennington shows how Derrida's work "interrupts" metaphysics, not by r...

This work provides a defence and illustration of deconstruction. Bennington demonstrates the possibility of clear and rigorous explication of deconstructive thought, and explores the political potential of deconstruction, via readings of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Freud, De Man and Lyotard.

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.

This book examines the figure of the frontier (both bilateral border and open edge of civilization) both literally in Kant's political writings, and figuratively in Critiques, developing via a reading of teleological judgment the concept of "interrupted teleology" as a reasoned but non-rationalistic response to rationalism.

This book examines the figure of the frontier (both bilateral border and open edge of civilization) both literally in Kant's political writings, and figuratively in Critiques, developing via a reading of teleological judgment the concept of "interrupted teleology" as a reasoned but non-rationalistic response to rationalism.

This book presupposes a contract"Derridabase by Geoffrey BenningtonWith TimeRemarkThe BeginningThe SignWritingHusserlDifferanceContextBeyondThe Proper NameCircumfession by Jacques DerridaTime and FinitudeMetaphorThe UnconsciousThe SignatureTranslationBabelLiteratureThe GiftSexual DifferenceThe Mother: ChoraFemininityPoliticsThe TitleThe InstitutionThe Series: (Quasi-) Transcendental QuestionsThe ClosureThe JewStrictionBeing the OtherThe Machin...