1st Edition
Philosophy, Language and the Political Poststructuralism in Perspective
The Conference and the Book
Preface: Against the Call for Blood, the Call for Critique
Marc Crépon
Thematic Introduction: Philosophical Critique and the Politico-Linguistic Aspects
Franson Manjali
1. The Invention of the Idiom: The Event of the Untranslatable
Marc Crépon
2. JOUIS ANNIVERSAIRE! ("scenes of inner life" for the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Derrida)
Jean-Luc Nancy
3. Can a Toolbox Go to War? The Political Legacy of Poststructuralism
François Cusset
4. Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as "Good Europeans"
Samir Gandesha
5. Cryptonymy: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Politics
Anup Dhar
6. (De)constitutive Theories of Language and the Politics of Change
Siby K. George
7. Resisting the Work of Mourning: Survival and Resurrection of Jacques Derrida
Jacob Rogozinski
8. Fear of Spinoza: Derrida as Reader of the Theological-Political Treatise
Gérard Bensussan
9. Not This, Not That...: Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism
Rustam Singh
10. 'Being-outside and Yet Belonging': Political Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben
Manas Ray
11. Aporias of Ethics: Looking at the 'Wholly Other'
Prasenjit Biswas
12. Of Shame and Censure: Is An 'other' Politics Possible?
Debaditya Bhattacharya
13. Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on "Feminine Writing"
Sukalpa Bhattacharjee
14. Ecce Animot: Notes on the Animal Stigmatext
Sandhya Devesan Nambiar
15. Learning to Live with Specters: Hauntology, Memory and Language in Specters of Marx
Vinod Kottayil Kalidasan
16. De-cision: Resisting the 'Tragic' and Surviving the Subject
Sourav Kargupta
17. Wounding the Self—Writing the Other
Nimmi Nalika Menike and Sanjay Kaushal
18. Remembering "The Purloined Letter": Letters from the Event Horizon
Arup K. Chatterjee
19. Foucault: Optics and the Folding of Light
Abhilash Nath
20. This is (not) a Pipe: from Magritte to Bansky
Achia Anzi
List of Contributors
Biography
Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His latest publications include Labyrinths of Language – Philosophical and Cultural Investigations. He has translated several scholarly texts from the French into English, notably Jean-Luc Nancy’s Philosophical Chronicles.
Marc Crépon is Director of Research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is also currently serving as Chair, Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure (Paris).
