A Companion to Derrida

1. Truth in Derrida
2. A Certain Truth: Derrida’s Transformation of the Kantian Heritage
3. Difference
4. The Obscurity of “Différance”
5. Metaphor and Analogy in Derrida
6. The “Slow and Differentiated” Machinations of Deconstructive Ethics
7. Deconstruction
8. The Transcendental Claim of Deconstruction
9. Writing the Violence of Time: Derrida Beyond the Deconstruction of Metaphysics
10. Derrida’s Radical Atheism
11. Play and Messianicity: The Question of Time and History in Derrida’s Deconstruction
12. I See Your Meaning and Raise the Stakes by a Signature: The Invention of Derrida’s Work
13. An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida
14. Derrida and Ancient Philosophy (Plato and Aristotle)
15. Derrida and de Man: Two Rhetorics of Deconstruction
16. Fraternal Politics and Maternal Auto-Immunity: Derrida, Feminism, and Ethnocentrism
17. Antigone as the White Fetish of Hegel and the Seductress of Derrida
18. Art’s Work: Derrida and Artaud and Atlan
19. Heidegger and Derrida on Responsibility
20. A Philosophy of Touching Between the Human and the Animal: The Animal Ethics of Jacques Derrida
21. Poetry, Animality, Derrida
22. On Forgiveness and the Possibility of Reconciliation
23. Derrida/Law: A Differend

A Companion to Derrida is the most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Leading scholars present a summary of his most important accomplishments across a broad range of subjects, and offer new assessments of these achievements. * The most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida, with contributions from highly prominent Derrida scholars * Unique focus on three major philosophical themes of metaphysics and epistemology; ethics, religion, and politics; and art and literature * Introduces the reader to the positions Derrida took in various areas of philosophy, as well as clarifying how derrideans interpret them in the present * Contributions present not only a summary of Derrida's most important accomplishments in relation to a wide range of disciplines, but also a new assessment of these accomplishments * Offers a greater understanding of how Derrida's work has fared since his death