Philosophy, Language and the Political

This book examines Derrida's legacy, deconstruction, and political theory through anlysis of Foucault, Agamben, and Blanchot, concepts of hauntology, spectrality, and the politics of language while offering contemporary perspectives on poststructuralist philosophy and its relevance to current political discourse.

Franson Manjali serves as Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His latest publications include Labyrinths of Language - Philosophical and Cultural Investigations. He has translated several scholarly texts from the French into English, notably Jean-Luc Nancy's Philosophical Chronicles. Marc Crépon is Director of Research with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France. He is also currently serving as Chair, Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure (Paris).

The Conference and the Book Preface: Against the Call for Blood, the Call for Critique Thematic Introduction: Philosophical Critique and the Politico-Linguistic Aspects - The Invention of the Idiom: The Event of the Untranslatable - JOUIS ANNIVERSAIRE! ("scenes of inner life" for the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Derrida) - Can a Toolbox Go to War? The Political Legacy of Poststructuralism - Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida as "Good Europeans" - Cryptonymy: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Politics - (De)constitutive Theories of Language and the Politics of Change - Resisting the Work of Mourning: Survival and Resurrection of Jacques Derrida - Fear of Spinoza: Derrida as Reader of the Theological-Political Treatise - Not This, Not That...: Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism - 'Being-outside and Yet Belonging': Political Philosophy of Giorgio Agamben - Aporias of Ethics: Looking at the 'Wholly Other' - Of Shame and Censure: Is An 'other' Politics Possible? - Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on "Feminine Writing" - Ecce Animot: Notes on the Animal Stigmatext - Learning to Live with Specters: Hauntology, Memory and Language in Specters of Marx - De-cision: Resisting the 'Tragic' and Surviving the Subject - Wounding the Self-Writing the Other - Remembering "The Purloined Letter": Letters from the Event Horizon - Foucault: Optics and the Folding of Light - This is (not) a Pipe: from Magritte to Bansky List of Contributors