For more than 30 years and until his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida
remained one of the most influential contemporary philosophers. It may
be difficult to evaluate what forms his legacy will take in the future
but Derrida Now provides some provocative suggestions. Derrida�s
often-controversial early reception was based on readings of his complex
works, published in journals and collected in books. More recently
attention has tended to focus on his later work, which grew out of the
seminars that he presented each year in France and the US. The full
texts of these seminars are now the subject of a major publication
project, to be produced over the next ten years.
Derrida Now presents contemporary articles based on or around the
study of Derrida. It provides a critical introduction to Derrida�s
complex and controversial thought, offers careful analysis of some of
his most important concepts, and includes essays that address the major
strands of his thought. Derrida�s influence reached not only into
philosophy but also into other fields concerned with literature,
politics, visual art, law, ecology, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality
and this book will appeal to readers in all these disciplines.
Contributors include Peggy Kamuf, Geoff Bennington, Nicholas Royle, Roy
Sellars, Graham Allen and Irving Goh.
