The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

History

Jacques Derrida

Jürgen Habermas

Giovanna Borradori

Americas

University of Chicago Press

"The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and art scholarship (Van Gogh, Adami, Titus-Carmel). The illustrations are excellent, and the translators, who clearly see their work as both a rendering and a transformation, add yet another dimension to this richly layered composition. Indispensable to collections emphasizing art criticism and aesthetics."—Alexander Gelley, Library Journal

The Truth in Painting

Arts & Photography

Derrida's controversial "deconstructions" of Nietzsche's meaning

Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles / Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche (English and French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Hospitality, Volume I

Hospitality, Volume II

With death looming, Jacques Derrida - the father of 'deconstructionism' - revisited his life's work in a moving final interview with journalist Jean Birnbaum, in which he reflects on a long career challenging the tenets of European philosophy. The contemporary meaning of his work is examined, and his many political activities are discussed.

The Last Interview: Learning to Live Finally

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Signeponge-Signsponge

Columbia University Press

"This volume brings us face to face with one of the great artistic singularities of the modern age. One comparison is still possible, however: Derrida writing on Artaud is astonishing and definitive rather as Artaud himself was when he wrote on Van Gogh." -- Malcolm Bowie, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, All Souls College, Oxford 
"I salute Antonin Artaud," wrote André Breton, "for his passionate, heroic negation of everything that causes us to be dead while alive." Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)--stage and film actor, director, writer, drug addict, and visual artist--was a man of rage and genius. The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud is the first English translation of two famous texts on his drawings and portraits. In one, Jacques Derrida examines the works that he first saw on the walls of Paule Thévenin's apartment. His text, as frenzied as Artaud's, struggles with Artaud's peculiar language and is punctuated by footnotes and asides that reflect this strain ("How will they translate this?"). The more straightforward text of Paule Thévenin describes the history of Artaud's drawings and portraits. 
Due to a dispute between Artaud's heirs and Paule Thévenin, the book does not contain reproductions of Artaud's artwork. Instead, there is a series of haunting photographs of Artaud by Georges Pastier. Artaud most likely would have approved of the irony of publishing a book entitled The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud without reproductions of the work--a catalogue irraisonn as it were. "We won't be describing any paintings," says Derrida in the text, which is addressed to that which underlies both language and art.

The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud

Paule Thýývenin

History & Criticism

MIT Press]

Writing And Difference

Routledge Classics

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Thinking in Action)

One of the world's most famous philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores difficult questions in this important and engaging book. Is it still possible to uphold international hospitality and justice in the face of increasing nationalism and civil strife in so many countries? Drawing on examples of treatment of minority groups in Europe, he skilfully and accessibly probes the thinking that underlies much of the practice, and rhetoric, that informs cosmopolitanism. What have duties and rights to do with hospitality? Should hospitality be grounded on a private or public ethic, or even a religious one? This fascinating book will be illuminating reading for all.

Routledge

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