radical philosophy

Grande biog

Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography, trans. Andrew Brown, Polity Press, Cambridge and Malden MA, 2012. 603 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 74565 615 1. ‘What matter who’s speaking, someone said, what matter who’s speaking?’ Despite post-structuralist philosophies’ association with Beckettian questions such as these, they remain surprisingly bound to what Foucault called that ‘singular relationship [...]

Jacques Derrida, 1930–2004

In an interview with Le Monde published a couple of months before his death at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer on Friday 9 October 2004, Jacques Derrida confirmed what many already knew, that he was ʻdangerously illʼ, ʻat war against myselfʼ. If questions of ʻsurvivalʼ had always ʻhauntedʼ him, this, he said, took [...]

Kant’s ‘raw man’ and the miming of primitivism

Generations of feminism

The limits of hauntology

Marx the uncanny? Ghosts and their relation to the mode of production

Messianic ruminations: Derrida, Stirner and Marx

Drucilla Cornell

The tremor of reflection

At first glance, the work of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek seems to offer an irresistible range of attractions for theorists wishing to engage with contemporary culture, without accepting the flimsy postmodernist doxa which is often the only available gloss on it. Zizek’s thought is still strongly coloured by his Althusserian background, and he is [...]

Deconstruction and the Political, University of Essex, 27-28 October 1994

Black Socrates?

Jacques Derrida

Hell’s Angels: Derrida and the Heidegger Controversy

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Metaphor and Metaphysics

An Introduction to Derrida