Without alibi / Jacques Derrida ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Peggy Kamuf.
"This book brings together for the first time five recent essays by Jacques Derrida, which advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital punishment. Strongly linked by their attenti...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Summary: | "This book brings together for the first time five recent essays by Jacques Derrida, which advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital punishment. Strongly linked by their attention to 'performatives' and the 'as if, ' the essays show the necessity of thinking beyond the category of acts that are possible for a subject. Derrida argues forcefully that thought must engage with the im-possible, that is, the order of the unforeseeable event, the absolute future still to come. This acute awareness of the limits of performative programs informs the essays throughout and attunes them closely to events of a world undergoing 'globalization.'"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxv, 304 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-304). |
| ISBN: | 0804744106 9780804744102 0804744114 9780804744119 |