Derrida Jacques. Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001

Ed., transl., intr. by Elizabeth Rottenberg. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. — 424 p. — (Cultural Memory in the Present) — ISBN-10 0804738920; ISBN-13 978-0804738927.This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over thirty years. Passionate, rigorous, beautifully argued, wide-ranging, the texts shed an entirely new light on his work and will be welcomed by scholars in many disciplines―politics, philosophy, history, cultural studies, literature, and a range of interdisciplinary programs.Derrida's arguments vary in their responsiveness to given political questions―sometimes they are vivid polemics on behalf of a position or figure, sometimes they are reflective analyses of a philosophical problem. They are united by the recurrent question of political decision or responsibility and the insistence that the apparent simplicity or programmatic character of political decision is in fact a profound avoidance of the political. This volume testifies to the possibility and the necessity of a philosophical politics.Negotiations assembles some of the most telling examples of the intrinsic relationship, so often affirmed by Derrida in more abstract philosophical terms, between deconstructive reading practices and what is called the "political"―more precisely, politics in an almost down-to-earth, pragmatic, and commonsense use of the word. Among the many subjects covered in the book are: the death penalty in the United States, the civil war in Algeria, globalization and cosmopolitanism, the American Declaration of Independence, Jean-Paul Sartre, the value of objectivity, politics and friendship, and the relationship between deconstruction and actuality.Introduction: Inheriting the Future. Elizabeth RottenbergNegotiationsNegotiations
Letter to Jean Genet (Fragments)
Declarations of Independence
What I Would Have Said...
Economies of the Crisis
Events? What Events?
"Pardon me for taking you at your word"
The Deconstruction of Actuality
Taking Sides for Algeria
For Mumia Abu-Jamal
Open Letter to Bill Clinton
Derelictions of the Right to JusticeThinking at Its limitsPolitics and Friendship
The Aforementioned So-Called Human Genome
Nietzsche and the Machine
"Dead Man Running": Salut, SalutEthics and Politics TodayEthics and Politics Today
On the "Priceless," or the "Going Rate" of the Transaction
The Right to Philosophy from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
As If It Were Possible, "W ithin Such Limits"...
Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism