Kamuf Peggy - Insister of Jacques Derrida

To Follow

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To Follow

The Wake of Jacques Derrida

Peggy Kamuf

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Peggy Kamuf, 2010, 2012

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Most often written in response to invitations, the chapters of this book are indebted first to all those who conceived and hosted congenial contexts for initial presentation of work then in progress: Deborah Lesko Baker, Karyn Ball, Roger-Daniel Bensky, Thomas Dutoit, Simon Glendinning, Christopher Johnson, Kir Kuiken, Dragan Kujundi, Ren Major, Martin McQuillan, Steven Miller, Michael O'Driscoll, Eric Prenowitz, Philippe Romanski, Marta Segarra, Ashley Thompson, and Massimo Verdicchio.

Many of these same friends (Tom, Simon, Chris, Dragan, Philippe, and Marta) also edited journal issues or essay collections in which earlier versions of some of the chapters appeared, for which I want to thank them again, as well as: Thomas Eaglestone, Lawrence Kritzman, Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, Dawne McCance, Ginette Michaud, and Julia Simon.

My longest-standing debts are to incomparable friends and readers of Derrida: Geoff Bennington, Pascale-Anne Brault, Hlne Cixous, Ted Jennings, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Nick Royle, Brigitte Weltman-Aron, David Wills, and Sarah Wood.

I am grateful to the publishers for permissions to reprint a number of the chapters.

, Tape-Recorded Surprise: Derrida Interviewed, first appeared in Nottingham French Studies 42, 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 8796, in an issue titled Thinking in Dialogue: The Role of the Interview in Post-War French Thought, edited by Christopher Johnson.

is a translation of Bartleby, ou la dcision, une note sur l'allgorie, published in Derrida d'ici, Derrida de l, edited by Thomas Dutoit and Philippe Romanski (Paris: Galile, 2009), pp. 12536.

is a translation of Traduire dans l'urgence, published in Le Magazine Littraire 430 (April 2004), p. 49, a special issue on Derrida edited by Michel Lisse.

is a translation of Venir aux dbuts, in Derrida [see infra, Works Cited], pp. 32934.

, To Follow, was first published in an earlier version in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 16, 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 115.

, One day someone..., was first published as an untitled contribution to Forum: The Legacy of Jacques Derrida, PMLA 120, 2 (March 2005), pp. 47981.

, The Affect of America, was published in an earlier version in Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy, edited by Simon Glendinning and Robert Eaglestone (New York: Routledge, 2008), pp. 13850.

, From Now On, was first published in Epoch, 10, 2 (Spring 2006), pp. 20320.

, Aller la ligne, is a translation from an earlier version published in Lvnement comme criture: Cixous et Derrida se lisant, edited by Marta Segarra, Paris: Campagne Premire, 2007, pp. 7384.

, Composition Displacement, was published in an earlier version in MLN 121 (2006) edited by Lawrence Kritzman, pp. 87292.

, The Ear, Who?, was first published in Discourse 30, 12 (WinterSpring 2008), edited by Dragan Kujundi, pp. 17790.

, To Do Justice to Rousseau, Irreducibly, appeared in an earlier version in Eighteenth-Century Studies 40, 3 (Spring 2007), pp. 395404, a special issue titled Derrida's Eighteenth Century.

, The Deconstitution of Psychoanalysis, appeared in Mosaic 42, 4 (December 2009), edited by Dawne McCance, pp. 3544.

Works by Jacques Derrida Cited

The following list gives full publication information for all works by Jacques Derrida quoted or cited in these chapters. Works are in alphabetical order of their title in the published English translation when one is available, followed by the citation of the original French edition. Untranslated works are listed only by their French titles. Short titles used to refer to the works throughout are given in parentheses. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from the published English translations, which have occasionally been modified.

(Acts) Acts of Literature. Edited by Derek Attridge. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.

(Afterword) Afterword: Toward an Ethic of Discussion. Translated by Samuel Weber. In Limited; Postface: Vers une thique de la discussion. See Limited.

(Alibi) Without Alibi. Edited and translated by Peggy Kamuf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

(Animal) The Animal that Therefore I Am. Edited by Marie-Louise Mallet. Translated by David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008; L'Animal que donc je suis. Edited by Marie-Louise Mallet. Paris: Galile, 2006.

(Ants) Ants. Translated by Eric Prenowitz. In Oxford Literary Review 24 (2002); Fourmis. In Lectures de la diffrence sexuelle. Edited by Mara Negrn. Paris: ditions des femmes, 1994.

(Aphorism) Aphorism Countertime. Translated by Nicholas Royle. In Psyche II; L'Aphorisme contretemps. In Psych II.

(Archive) Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; Mal d'archive, une impression freudienne. Paris: Galile, 1995.

(As If) As If It Were Possible, Within Such Limits... In Paper. Comme si ctait possible, within such limits... In Papier machine (see Paper).

(Autoimmunity) Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. Edited by Giovanna Borradori. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003; Derrida and Jrgen Habermas,