Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...

Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the Ecole Normale Superieure,...

"Theory and Practice" is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential in...

In "Archive Fever", Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology – fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationshi...

In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a...

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundament...

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes". These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism – of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particul...