Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida

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by  Geoffrey Bennington

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Scatter 1
The Politics of Politics in Foucault,
Heidegger, and Derrida
Geoffrey Bennington
fordham university press
New York 2016
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contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: The Politics of Politics 1
1. Parrhe¯sia 9
2. Pseudos 48
3. Kairos 102
4. Mo¯ria 152
5. Diakrisis 187
6. Axioma 238
Appendix: Derrida’s Notes on Dignity 283
Index 291

abbreviations
References to Derrida, Foucault, and Heidegger give the pagination of the
original followed by that of the translation. GA numbers refer to volumes
in the ongoing Gesamtausgabe edition of Heidegger’s work published in
Frankfurt by Vittorio Klostermann. In the interests of legibility, I have
transliterated all ancient Greek text.
AF Derrida, Jacques. L’archéologie du frivole [1973]. Paris: Gali-
lée, 1990. The Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac.
Trans. John P. Leavey Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1987.
AP Derrida, Jacques. Apories: mourir—s’attendre aux “limites de la
vérité.” Paris: Galilée, 1996. Aporias: Dying—Awaiting (One
Another at) the “Limits of Truth.” Trans. Thomas Dutoit.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.
AS Foucault, Michel. L’archéologie du savoir. Paris: Gallimard,
1969. The Archeology of Knowledge. Trans. Alan Sheridan.
London. Tavistock, 1972.
BS I Derrida, Jacques. Séminaire La bête et le souverain I (2001–
2002). Paris: Galilée, 2008. The Beast and the Sovereign I.
Trans. Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press, 2009.
BS II Derrida, Jacques. Séminaire La bête et le souverain II (2002–
2003). Paris: Galilée, 2010. The Beast and the Sovereign II.
Trans. Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: University of Chi-
cago Press, 2011.
CA Kierkegaard, Søren. The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psycho-
logically Orienting Deliberation of the Dogmatic Issue of Heredi-
tary Sin. Trans. and ed. Reidar Thomte in collaboration with
Albert B. Anderson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1980.
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x Abbreviations
CIR Derrida, Jacques. “Circonfession.” In Geoffrey Benning-
ton and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida. Paris: Seuil, 1991
(2nd ed. 2009). Jacques Derrida. Trans. G. Bennington. Chi-
cago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
CP Derrida, Jacques. La carte postale de Socrate à Freud et au-delà.
Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1980. The Post Card: From Soc-
rates to Freud and Beyond. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: Univer-
sity of Chicago Press, 1987.
CV Foucault, Michel. Le courage de la vérité. Le gouvernement de
soi et les autres, II. Cours au Collège de France, 1983–4. Ed.
Frédéric Gros. Paris: Seuil, 2009. The Courage of Truth: The
Government of Self and Others II: Lectures at the Collège de
France, 1983–1984. Trans. Graham Burchell. London: Pal-
grave/Macmillan, 2011.
D Derrida, Jacques. La dissémination. Paris: Seuil, 1972. Dis-
semination. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University of
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DE I, DE II Foucault, Michel. Dits et écrits I and II. Paris: Gallimard,
2001.
DES De l’esprit: Heidegger et la question. Paris: Galilée, 1987. Of
Spirit: Heidegger and the Question. Trans. Geoffrey Benning-
ton and Rachel Bowlby. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1991.
DM Derrida, Jacques. Donner la mort. Paris: Galilée, 1993. The
Gift of Death. Trans. David Wills. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1996.
DP Derrida, Jacques. Du droit à la philosophie. Paris: Galilée,
1990. Who’s Afraid of Philosophy? Right to Philosophy I, and
Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2. Trans. Jan Plug.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002, 2004.
DT Donner le temps 1. La fausse monnaie. Paris: Galilée, 1991.
Given Time 1: Counterfeit Money. Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Chi-
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ECO Derrida, Jacques. “Economimesis.” In Sylviane Agacinski
et al., Mimesis des articulations. Paris: Aubier-Flammarion,
1975. Trans. Richard Klein in Diacritics 11, no. 2 (1981),
3–25.
ED Derrida, Jacques. L’écriture et la difference. Paris: Seuil, 1967.
Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: Univer-
sity of Chicago Press, 1981.