Thinking What Comes, Volume 2

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University. He is the author and translator of numerous books and articles on literary and philosophical issues, and translator of many texts by Jacques Derrida and other French thinkers. His books include Late Lyotard (2005), Deconstruction is Not What You Think…(2005), Interrupting Derrida (2000) and, with Jacques Derrida, Jacques Derrida (1991). 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 Editor's PrefaceEditors’ IntroductionAcknowledgments Part I: Scenes of Differences 1. Scenes of Differences: Where Philosophy and Poetics, Indissociably, Make the Event of Writing (2006), Translated by Bradley Ramos2. Philosophy at the Risk of the Promise (2004), Translated by Ellie Anderson and Philippe LynesPart II: On School and Writing3. "School was Hell for Me…" (1989), Translated by David Maruzzella4. "I don’t write without artificial light" (1982), Translated by Adam Rosenthal5. Archive and Draft (1998), Translated by Katie Chenoweth6. Between the Writing Body and Writing (2001), Translated by Katie ChenowethPart III: "Oh My Friends"7. With Levinas: Between Him and Me in Affection and Shared Trust (2003), Translated by Philippe Lynes8. Form and Fashion: (Never again: in the face of all opposition, never again think that "For the Form") (2001), Translated by Philippe Lynes9. Echoes of Encounters (2003), Translated by Adam Rosenthal10. This Night in the Night of the Night… (2003), Translated by Humberto González Núnez11. Her Evil Genius: Preparations for the Infinite (2004), Translated by Humberto González Núnez12. Prière d’insérer (1991), Translated by Philippe Lynes13. Eyespot Like no Other (1980), Translated by Ellie Andeson and Philippe LynesIndex

This superb collection contains some of Derrida’s most compelling interviews and essays on literature, theater, music, sexual difference, and racism, as well as some of his most personal reflections on friendship, his early childhood and education in Algeria, his fraught relation to academic institutions, his unique philosophical itinerary, and his inimitable practice of writing.