1st Edition
Derrida and Law Justice and the Violence of Legality
Introduction: Force v Law
Peter Goodrich
Part One: Law
1. Doing Justice to Deconstruction
Isabelle Alfandry
2. In the Waiting Room of Injustice: Pascal, Kafka, Derrida
Robert Young
3. Is Deconstruction Justice?
Peter Goodrich
4. Nasorum vis: Hate Inside and Outside Law
Philip Mitsis
5. Justice without Force
Hent de Vries
6. Derrida’s Wake: Radical Patience between Justice and Forgiveness
Anselm Haverkamp
Part Two: Force
7. The Divine Tantrum: On Law and Anger
Avital Ronell
8. Sacrifices: On a Footnote in ‘Critique of Violence
Erica Weitzman
9. De-expiation and the Bloodless Strike: On the Force of the Incalculable
Mangalika de Silva
10. The Suicide of the Critique of Violence
Chris Power
11. What does a Weak Language Say About Law?
Juntao Lin
12. Aprés la loi: Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida
Dominik Zechner (Rutgers)
13. Afterword: Derrida and Benjamin
Avital Ronell
Biography
Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York, and Visiting Professor in Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. An ardent advocate of the argute yet habile silent p, as in psithurism, ptomaine, cupboard and rhubarb, he writes on forensic rhetoric, visual advocacy, law and literature, juristic semiotics.
Anselm Haverkamp, Emeritus Professor of English at NYU, is Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich. As director of the NYU Poetics and Theory Program he for years organized and taught the “Literature and Philosophy” seminars with Jacques Derrida (Fall term) and Stanley Cavell (Spring term).
Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. She has taught at UC-Berkeley, Germany, France, Princeton, The European Graduate School (currently) and has published many works inflected by deconstruction and hermeneutics.






