Understanding Derrida

Jack Reynolds is Chair of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. Jonathan Roffe is Convenor of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum 2004)

• Foreword; Jacques Derrida; 1. Editor's Introduction; Jack Reynolds and Jon Roffe; Part I: Themes in Derrida; 2. Language; Michael Naas, DePaul University; 3. Metaphysics; Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff; 4. The Subject; Christina Howells, Oxford; 5. Politics; Paul Patton, University of New South Wales; 6. Ethics; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; 7. Decision; Jack Reynolds, University of Tasmania; 8. Translation; Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne; 9. Religion; Kevin Hart, University of Notre Dame; 10. Psychoanalysis; Matthew Sharpe, University of Auckland; 11. Literature; Claire Colebrook, University of Edinburgh; 12. Art; Julian Wolfreys, University of Florida; Part II: Derrida & Others; 13. Edmund Husserl; David Allison, State University of New York; 14. Martin Heidegger; Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis; 15. Emmanuel Levinas; Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales; 16. GWF Hegel; David Rathbone, University of Melbourne; 17. Friedrich Nietzsche; Richard Beardsworth, American University of Paris; Bibliography of all Derrida's English publications

"The most important offering for assessing Derrida's contribution to philosophy is Reynolds and Roffe's Understanding Derrida, which brings together introductory pieces from important philosophers and Derrida scholars, including David Allison, Robert Bernasconi, and Simon Critchley...By extracting the properly philosophical elements of Derrida's work, Reynolds and Roffe have produced a careful invitation that truly and compellingly shows Derrida to be a serious philosopher we should study and from whom we can learn." -Edvard Lorkovic, Philosophy in Review