Derrida

Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University London, UK.

• Introduction: Writing the Event, or Citations from an Archive of the Future; 1. The Archive and the Anthological; 2. Writing Obsession; 3. Writing Friendship: Agamben and Derrida; 4. Anonymity Writing Pedagogy: Beckett, Descartes, Derrida; 5. Reality; 6. Can Dreaming Be 'Political'?: Some Questions on the 'Politics' of Cultural Studies; Endnote: Saying the Event; Bibliography; Index.

"What makes Simon Morgan Wortham's work so remarkable and important is his clear and passionate thinking of the unavoidable politics of the institution in his timely study of the ongoing reverberations of the event." (Dr Sean Gaston, Brunel University, UK) "A very exciting and important study, which will help to broaden the understanding of Derrida's work as one that is constitutively addressed to a broad public, from whom Derrida received not just solicitations, but also and above all invaluable stimulation and encouragement." (Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA) "Simon Morgan-Wortham is emerging as one of the most indispensable critical and political commentators of his generation. Shrewd, lucid, patient and disarmingly competent, his readings are altogether brilliant, staking strong and luminous arguments around Jacques Derrida's pathbreaking work." (Avital Ronell, Professor of German, New York University, USA, and Jacques Derrida Chair, European Graduate School) "Far from being an investigation into the minutiae of a particular strand of philosophical language, or a critique of grammar, Derrida: Writing Events demonstrates a broader and fresher perspective on Derrida, which is skillfully calculated to be neither too broad, nor too dense. For such a short book, this is a veritable achievement; and an ability to handle Derrida without loss of perspective is truly enviable...an important monograph in expounding the meaning of Derrida on the issue of writing events." (Chris Wojtulewicz, University of Birmingham, for Academici)"