Acknowledgments

Several chapters of this book were initially presented as lectures at various institutions or conferences, and many were subsequently published in ear- lier versions in different journals or collections. They all benefited enor- mously from the conversations that followed these lectures and the suggestions received from various editors and copyeditors. All but the Conclusion were significantly rewritten for this volume. Parts of the Introduction were presented at a special session at the Modern Language Association (MLA) in December 2005 at the invita- tion of Claudia Brodsky. Chapter 1 was first presented in January 2005 at the Alliance Franc¸aise in Chicago at the invitation of Norah Delaney and published in SubStance ࠻106, 34, no. 1 (2005): 6–17. Parts of Chap- ter 2 were presented at a conference organized by Tanja Sta¨hler in June 2005 at the University of Sussex. Chapter 3, first presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) in October 2006, and then in April 2007 at Marquette University at the invitation of Pol Vandervelde, and then again in October 2007 at Northern Arizona Uni- versity at the invitation of Julie Piering, was published in The New Cen- tennial Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 21–42. Chapter 4 was first presented at Slippery Rock College at the invitation of Bernie Freydberg and Rich- ard Findler and was published in Theory & Event 8, no. 1 (2005): 1–19. Chapter 5, first presented in February 2005 at the Tate Museum in Lon- don at the invitation of Simon Glendinning and then at the Midwest meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in Chicago in

xi April 2005, at a session organized by Penelope Deutscher, was published in Derrida’s Legacies, ed. Simon Glendinning and Robert Eaglestone (London: Routledge, 2008), 118–37. Chapter 6 was first published in French under the title ‘‘Un philosophe a` sontour’’intheCahier de l’Herne devoted to Derrida (Paris: l’Herne, 2004), 131–36), and then in English as ‘‘A Philosopher at the Wheel,’’ in Mosaic 39, no. 3 (September 2006): 59–68. Chapter 7 was first presented at the International Sympo- sium on Deconstruction and National Contexts, organized by Alcides Cardoso dos Santos in Araraquara, Brazil, in June 2005, and then at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Citta` di Castello, Italy, in July 2005 at the invitation of Dennis Schmidt; it was subsequently published in Re- search in Phenomenology 36 (2006): 15–44. Chapter 8 was initially written for the conference Postmodernism at Wofford College in March 2004 at the invitation of Vivian Fisher, and it benefited greatly from my conversa- tions there with Karen Goodchild, Stephen Michelman, and Jim Neigh- bors. Chapter 9 was originally written for the July 2002 conference on Derrida at Cerisy-la-Salle, organized by Marie-Louise Mallet, and was published in French as ‘‘Les restes de l’histoire: Comment faire son deuil des inconnus,’’ in La de´mocratie a` venir: Autour du travail de Jacques Der- rida Paris: Galile´e, 2004), 549–65, and then rewritten in English as ‘‘His- tory’s Remains: Of Memory, Mourning, and the Event,’’ for Research in Phenomenology 33 (2003): 75–96. Chapter 10 was first presented at a con- ference organized by Dawne McCance at the University of Manitoba in October 2006 and was published in Mosaic 40, no. 2 (June 2007): 1–26. ‘‘Lifelines,’’ Chapter 11, initially written in French at the invitation of Rene´ Major for Me´langes (Paris: Stock, 2007), 63–81, was subsequently presented in English at the October 2004 meeting of SPEP and published in Epoche¯ 10, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 221–36. Finally, the Conclusion was first presented at a memorial session for Derrida at SPEP in October 2004 and was published in its present form as ‘‘The World Over’’ in Radical Philosophy Review 8, no. 2 (2005): 123–30.

I would also like to express my profound gratitude for the many ex- changes I have had over the years with my colleagues and students at De- Paul University. Most of the ideas in this work were either first conceived or first developed in conversations or seminars with them. My thanks in particular to Peg Birmingham, Rick Lee, Bill Martin, Will McNeill, David Pellauer, Peter Steeves, and, especially, Elizabeth Rottenberg. I owe a special word of thanks to Pascale-Anne Brault and David Krell, who demonstrated their generosity and friendship by reading the entirety of this work and offering many excellent suggestions. This work also profited xii Acknowledgments from many conversations with friends outside DePaul. To name just a few, Geoff Bennington, Martin Ha¨gglund, Samir Haddad, Peggy Kamuf, Matthias Fritsch, Len Lawlor, Dawne McCance, Ginette Michaud, Jeff Nealon, Alan Schrift, Sam Weber, and David Wood. My thanks also to DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and its dean, Chuck Suchar, for the summer grant program that facilitated the completion of this work. Finally, I owe a great debt of gratitude to Helen Tartar at Fordham University Press, who not only improved the writing and form of this book but who, with her impeccable knowledge of the work and life of Jacques Derrida, informed and clarified the content throughout.

This book is dedicated to my father, Bruce Naas, whose love and atten- tion always sustained my work, and whose memory animates every page of what follows. From now on, I think toward him.

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