Encountering Derrida

Simon Morgan Wortham is Reader in Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His previous publications include Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham University Press, 2006) and Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading (Ashgate, 2003). Allison Weiner has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University, USA.

• Editor's Introduction; 1. Foundations, Geoffrey Benningtin (Emory University, USA); 2. 'Rather than Nothing': Derrida, Literature, and the Resistance of Nihilism, Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK); 3. Accounterability, Peggy Kamuf (University of South California, USA); 4. 'Don't Count Me In': Derrida's Refraining, J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine, USA); 5. Reading Over a Globalised World, Samuel Weber (Northwestern University, USA); 6. Counterchange: Derrida's Poetry, William Watkin (Brunel University, UK); 7. Disagreement as (Possible) Event: Derrida contre de Man, Tom Toremans (Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium); 8. The Counterpromise: Derrida on the Instant of Blanchot's Death, Allison Weiner (Yale University, USA); 9. Derrida's Transcendental Contraband: Impossible Acts, Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK); 10. The Entropics of Discourse: The 'Materiality' of Affect Between Marx and Derrida, Karyn Ball (University of Alberta, Canada); 11. The Grammar of Deconstruction, Stefan Herbrechter (University of Leeds, UK) and Ivan Callus (University of Malta); 12. Dislocating Derrida: Badiou, the Unthought and the Justice of Mutliplicity, Patience Moll (University of California, Irvine, USA).

'These articulate, often distinguished essays focus on the way Derrida creates a more reflective language, one that includes hesitation, play, and indeterminacy, and opens up to literature and testimony.' Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus English & Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA.