×


 x 

Shopping cart
Weber  - Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace - 9780823249930 - V9780823249930
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace

€ 51.17
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace paperback.

For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of “community,” “living,” and “together” never ceased to harbor radical, in fact infinite interrogations. The often anguished question of how to “live together” moved Derrida throughout his oeuvre, animating his sustained reflections on hospitality, friendship, responsibility, justice, forgiveness, and mourning, as well as his interventions as an outspoken critic of South Africa’s apartheid, the Israel/Palestine conflict, the bloody civil war in his native Algeria, human rights abuses, French immigration laws, the death penalty, and the “war on terror.” “Live together,” Derrida wrote, “one must . . . one cannot not ‘live together,’ even ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823249930
SKU
V9780823249930
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Weber
Elisabeth Weber is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Verfolgung und Trauma: Zu Emmanuel Levinas’ Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (Passagen Verlag, 1990), Das Vergessen(e): Anamnesen des Undarstellbaren, coeditor (Turia and Kant, 1997), and Questioning Judaism (Stanford, 2004), a collection of interviews with Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Emmanuel ... Read more

Reviews for Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace
“An extraordinary volume of essays. Collectively, they address problems including the conditions of possibility and impossibility of peace and justice in contemporary Palestine/Israel; the politics of forgiveness; Derrida’s Jewishness; the politics of partition and the “living together” of Indians and Pakistanis today.”
-—Lecia Rosenthal, Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation Contributors from religious studies, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!