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Islam and the West religion and postmodernism A series edited by Th omas A. Carlson editorial board Gil Anidjar, Arnold Davidson, Hent de Vries, Amy Hollywood, Eric L. Santner founding editor Mark C. Taylor recent books in the series Th omas A. Carlson, Th e Indiscrete Image: Infi nitude and Creation of the Human (2008) Jacques Derrida, Th e Gift of Death, Second Edition, and Literature in Secret (2008) Ward Blanton, Displacing Christian Origins: Philosophy, Secularity, and the New Testament (2007) Mark C. Taylor, After God (2007) Slavoj Zizek, Eric L. Santner, and Kenneth Reinhard, Th e Neighbor: Th ree Inquiries in Political Th eology (2006) Vincent P. Pecora, Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity (2006) Paolo Apolito, Th e Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web (2005) Kevin Hart, Th e Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (2004) Islam and the West A Conversation with Jacques Derrida mustapha chérif Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan With a foreword by Giovanna Borradori Th e University of Chicago Press (cid:3) Chicago and London mustapha chérif is Th e University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 professor of philosophy Th e University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London and Islamic studies at the © 2008 by Th e University of Chicago University of Algiers and All rights reserved. Published 2008 a visiting professor at the Printed in the United States of America Collège de France. 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 isbn-13: 978-0-226-10286-3 (cloth) Among teresa isbn-10: 0-226-10286-6 (cloth) lavender fagan’s most recent translations Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are Rémi Brague’s Th e Derrida, Jacques. Wisdom of the World, Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Jean Bottéro’s Th e Oldest Derrida / Mustapha Chérif; translated by Teresa Cuisine in the World, and Lavender Fagan; with a foreword by Giovanna Alain Boureau’s Satan Borradori. the Heretic: Th e Birth p. cm. of Demonology in the isbn-13: 978-0-226-10286-3 (cloth : alk. paper) Medieval West. isbn-10: 0-226-10286-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Derrida, Jacques—Interviews. 2. East and Originally published as West. 3. Political science—Philosophy. I. Chérif, L’Islam et l’occident. Mustapha, 1950– II. Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Rencontre avec Jacques III. Borradori, Giovanna. IV. Title. Derrida © Editions cb251.d4 2008 Odile Jacob, 909'.09767—dc22 2006. 2008003988 ∞ Th e paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992. To all those who unconditionally welcome, listen to, and respect THE OTHER. With my thanks and gratitude to Madame Marguerite Derrida, and to Professor Jean-Luc Nancy, who was kind enough to read and comment on this work. Contents Foreword: Pure Faith in Peace ix Introduction: Friendship, Above All 1 Th e Future of Civilizations 19 Th e Discussion 27 To Have Lived, and to Remember, as an Algerian 29 East-West: Unity and Diff erences 37 Injustice and Decline 47 Separation or Connection? 55 Progress Is Absolute, or Th ere Is No Progress 77 Conclusion: Th e Diff erent Other Is Indispensable to Our Lives 87 Afterword: From the Southern Shores, Adieu to Derrida 95 Biography: Derrida and the Southern Shores 107 Foreword: Pure Faith in Peace I want to speak here, today, as an Algerian, as an Algerian who became French at a given moment, lost his French citizenship, and then recovered it. jacques derrida It is a late afternoon in the spring of 2003. In the tea- room of the Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris, a man by the name of Mustapha Chérif is sitting at a table, deeply immersed in his thoughts. He is expecting the arrival of Jacques Derrida, thinker of worldwide fame, controversial philosopher, and prophet of the oppressed, the undocumented, and the unseen. We can imagine what Chérif could have reasonably anticipated: after greeting Derrida and exchanging a few words of gratitude for agreeing to participate in
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