The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar PDF
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Th e End of the World and Other Teachable Moments Series Board James Bernauer Drucilla Cornell Thomas R. Flynn Kevin Hart Richard Kearney Jean- Luc Marion Adriaan Peperzak Thomas Sheehan Hent de Vries Merold Westphal Michael Zimmerman John D. Caputo, series editor This page intentionally left blank MICHAEL NAAS Th e End of the World and Other Teachable Moments Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York ■ 2015 Copyright © 2015 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other— except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the per sis tence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 5 4 3 2 1 First edition In memory of Helen Tartar This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida xi Ac know ledg ments xvii Introduction: Derrida’s Other Corpus 1 1 Derrida’s Flair (For the Animals to Follow . . . ) 17 2 “If you could take just two books . . .”: Derrida at the Ends of the World with Heidegger and Robinson Crusoe 41 3 To Die a Living Death: Phantasms of Burial and Cremation 62 4 Reinventing the Wheel: Of Sovereignty, Autobiography, and Deconstruction 83 5 Pray Tell: Derrida’s Performative Justice 104 6 Derrida’s Preoccupation with the Archive 125 7 “World, Finitude, Solitude”: Derrida’s Walten 142 Conclusion: Désormais 167 Notes 173 Index 201
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