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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Hope against hope -- Twenty Two Short Essays on the Politics of Optimism -- 1 Immanuel Kant: Choosing what is best -- 2 Voltaire: Bien (tout est) -- 3 Arthur Schopenhauer: Eating the other -- 4 Benedict de Spinoza: Hope, faith and judgement -- 5 Friedrich Nietzsche: Imperfect nihilism -- 6 Maurice Blanchot: Hope and poetry -- 7 Jacques Derrida: Yes, yes -- 8 Emmanuel Levinas: Sociality and solitude -- 9 Sigmund Freud: 'A time-consuming business' -- 10 Melanie Klein: 'Therapeutic pessimism' in Kristeva's view -- 11 Julia Kristeva: 'Psychoanalysis - a counterdepressant' -- 12 Walter Benjamin: 'Pessimism all along the line' -- 13 Theodor Adorno: 'Hurrah-optimism' -- 14 Hannah Arendt: 'The right to expect miracles' -- 15 Slavoj Žižek: Hopeless courage (with Hegel and Badiou) -- 16 Franz Kafka: 'Plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us' (re-reading Walter Benjamin) -- 17 Jacques Derrida: Hegel, Bataille, negativity and affirmation -- 18 Frantz Fanon: Recognition and conflict -- 19 Hannah Arendt: Violence and power -- 20 Étienne Balibar: Politics and psychoanalysis -- 21 Hans Kelsen: Politics and the 'impolitical' -- 22 Sigmund Freud: Super-ego politics -- Notes -- Index.

List of contributors -- Introduction / Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano -- Chapter 1 Ashes to Ashes: Derrida's Holocaust / Gil Anidjar -- Chapter 2 'There shall be no mourning' / Simon Morgan Wortham -- Chapter 3 Transference Love in the Age of 'Isms' / Herman Rapaport -- Chapter 4 Kindling; or, Suicide by Fire / Elissa Marder -- Chapter 5 Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and Ferenczi / Lynn Turner -- Chapter 6 Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida's 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' / Céline Surprenant -- Chapter 7 The Desire for Survival? / Kas Saghafi -- Chapter 8 The King is Dead! Long Live the King! / Chiara Alfano.

The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in the central themes of Derrida's thought. Students will discover a wealth of useful information, analysis and criticism. A-Z entries include clear definitions of all the key terms used in Derrida's writings and detailed synopses

Introduction : writing the event, or, citations from an archive of the future -- The archive and the anthological -- Writing obsession -- Writing friendship : Agamben and Derrida -- Anonymity writing pedagogy : Beckett, Descartes, Derrida -- Raelity -- Can dreaming be 'political'? : some questions on the politics of cultural studies : an interview with Paul Bowman -- End note : saying the event.

Rethinks how psychoanalysis, political thought and philosophy can be brought togetherAs calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outwith the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view.Morgan Wortham also reveals a new theory of phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary political analysis.Key FeaturesReassesses the reception of psychoanalysis within the continental tradition to reconfigure contemporary theoretical debates Provides the broader context of the history of psychoanalysisOffers new ways of thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy and politicsAddresses a range of thinkers including Kant, Hegel, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Arendt, Fanon, Derrida, Lyotard, Balibar, Malabou and Žižek

Analyses how modern conceptions of politics, ethics, and critical thought may be re-evaluated through the question of painGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748692415','ISBN:97807486924722','ISBN:9780748692439']);Through a series of rigorous encounters with key critical figures, this monograph argues that modern thought is, in a double sense, the thought of pain. This book investigates the idea that modern European philosophy after Kant offers less the conceptual equipment to tackle pain in explanatory terms, than an experience of thought that participates in the forms of pain and suffering about which it speaks. Perhaps surprisingly, the question of pain establishes a ground from which to examine key debates in twentieth-century European philosophy, most recently between forms of post-structuralist and ethical thinking imagined to be in crisis and the resurgence of discourses of political emancipation arising from traditions of thought associated with Marxism. Key features:Offers a systematic account of the modern European tradition's relationship to the question of pain and sufferingSuggests new readings of 'ethics' and 'evil'Evaluates the politics of contemporary critical theorySets new agendas for reading post-Kantian philosophy"

This essay examines recent writings on debt, notably those by Maurizio Lazzarato and David Graeber. I ask whether Graeber's Debt: the First 5000 Years is able to resist the insidious logic of a retroactive interpretation of debt that it seeks to overturn. Meanwhile, Lazzarato's notion of a catastrophic future-without-future of unending debt relies on an understanding of the ever-intensifying asymmetry of power. While this suggestion may derive from a strand of Nietzschean thought, the further implication of a debt so all-pervasive that it leaves no creditor intact opens up the possibility of rigorous thinking about the divisible limits of sovereignty and sovereign debt (an opportunity Lazzarato does not pursue). One can also excavate from Nietzsche the idea that the retroactivity so pivotal to the very possibility of debt is based on a false continuity between past and present, 'origin' and 'aim', which implies in turn that debt itself aggresses against temporal continuity in general. As such, debt's ostensible sponsorship of neoliberalism's violence against all future time itself becomes questionable and resistible.