Foreword
Barry Stocker
Introduction
Barry Stocker
Section I: LIFE AND SOVEREIGNTY
1. Fidelity to Life ~ Hospitable Biopolitics
Chris Hall
2. Jacques Derrida’s Bio-thanato-politics
Caterina Resta and Simon Tanner
3. The Exception Derrida – The “Secret Elect” of the Animals: The Onto-anthropo-theological Vein in Question
Fernanda Bernardo
4. Deconstruction’s Animal Promise: From Textual Pragmatics to a Categorical Imperative
Giustino De Michele
5. Derrida’s “Very Idea of Democracy”
Annabel Herzog
6. Hyper-Sovereignty and Community: Derrida’s Reading of Heidegger in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
Jeffrey D. Gower
7. Language by Birth and Nationality by Death: Rethinking Nationalism with Heidegger and Derrida
Michael Portal
Section II: THE SOCIAL WORLD
8. Derrida and Parle-ment (Parliament)
Tyler Correia
9. Inheritance Indifferent to Legitimacy: A Kind of Ethical and Political First Principle
Michael Peterson
10. Today's Enlightenment: Jacques Derrida on Europe in the Global Age
Valentina Surace
11. “What is Proper to a Culture”: Identification and Ethics in Jacques Derrida & Amartya Sen
Cillian Ó Fathaigh
Section III: DECISIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY
12. The Notion of Responsibility and the Poetic Revolution in Derrida’s Thought
Alejandro Orozco Hidalgo
13. Philosophical Responsibility: Derrida’s Historical and Ethical Task
Rebeca Pérez Leon
14. Derrida’s Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility
Petar Bojanić and Andrea Perunović
15. How to Make Impossible Decisions: Jacques Derrida and Ruth Chang on the Ethics of Rational Choice
Catherine M. Robb
16. Derrida and the Time of Decision
Joe Larios
Section IV: DERRIDA AND FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
17. Auto-affection and Ethics: A Derridean Response to Levinas
Zeynep Direk
18. Fugitive Philosophy: Derrida and Lyotard at the Limits of the Law
Dylan Vaughan
19. Logics of Alterity in Derrida’s and Deleuze’s Philosophies of Justice
Corry Shores
Section V: DEFINING DECONSTRUCTION
20. An Ethics Worthy of the Name: Of God and Ghosts in Derridean Ethics
Marie Chabbert
21. Quoting the Other. Toward a “Minor” Ethic of Reading
Francesco Vitale
22. Immanent Ethics and Deconstruction
Mehdi Parsa
23. Deconstructions as Ethics Without Result: On Derridean Resultlessness, Urgency and Attunement in Contrast to Arendt, Sextus and Kierkegaard
Johan de Jong
After Thought – Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law: Poetics, Sacrifice, Judaism, and the Limits of Decisionism
Barry Stocker
Biography
Barry Stocker teaches philosophy at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has degrees from the University of Warwick and the University of Sussex, UK. His publications include the monographs Derrida on Deconstruction, Kierkegaard on Politics, and Philosophy of the Novel. Other interests include Montaigne, Vico, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
