Remains – Jacques Derrida

Pleshette DeArmitt was Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She conducted research in contemporary French thought, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. Her articles on Derrida, Kofman, and Kristeva were published in Mosaic, Philosophy Today, Research in Phenomenology, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. She was the author of The Right to Narcissism: A Case for An Im-possible Self-Love (2014), co-editor of Sarah Kofman’s Corpus (2008) and a memorial issue of Epoché on Derrida (2006). She also co-translated three essays by Derrida, “A Europe of Hope” (2006), “Aletheia,” (2010), and “Remain(s)—the Master, or the Supplement of Infinity.” Kas Saghafi is Professor of Philosophy at University of Memphis. He researches and teaches in contemporary French thought. He is the author of two books, The World after the End of the World (2020) and Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other (2010) and numerous articles. He is co-editor, with Geoffrey Bennington, of a two-volume collection of Derrida’s writings entitled Thinking What Comes (2024). He has also co-translated, with Pleshette DeArmitt, four essays by Jacques Derrida.

• Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsDeparturePART I. REMAIN(S)1. Remain(s)—The Master, or the Supplement of InfinityJacques DerridaPART II. REMAINDER, REMAINS2. What Remains: Remaining in Derrida’s WritingsPART III. TROPES OF CANNIBALISM3. Leftovers4. Cannibal: The Consumption of the OtherPART IV. ECONOMY OF SACRIFICE5. Economy of SacrificePART V. THE REMAINING OF THE REMAINDER6. Leaving, RemainingBibliographyIndex

Pleshette DeArmitt and Kas Saghafi have given us a great gift with this book. Lucidly and patiently, they show us how to understand the central importance for Derrida’s thought of remaining, leavings, leftovers, and so on. This is writing that never flinches from the encounter with the impossible conditions of mourning what is gone and all that leaves.