{"product_id":"negotiations-interventions-and-interviews-19712001-cultural-memory-in-the-present-9780804738927","title":"Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews  1971-2001 (Cultural Memory in the Present)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays and interviews  some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time  encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over thirty years. Passionate  rigorous  beautifully argued  wide-ranging  the texts shed an entirely new light on his work and will be welcomed by scholars in many disciplinespolitics  philosophy  history  cultural studies  literature  and a range of interdisciplinary programs. Derridas arguments vary in their responsiveness to given political questionssometimes they are vivid polemics on behalf of a position or figure  sometimes they are reflective analyses of a philosophical problem. They are united by the recurrent question of political decision or responsibility and the insistence that the apparent simplicity or programmatic character of political decision is in fact a profound avoidance of the political. This volume testifies to the possibility and the necessity of a philosophical politics. Negotiations assembles some of the most telling examples of the intrinsic relationship  so often affirmed by Derrida in more abstract philosophical terms  between deconstructive reading practices and what is called the \"political\"more precisely  politics in an almost down-to-earth  pragmatic  and commonsense use of the word. Among the many subjects covered in the book are: the death penalty in the United States  the civil war in Algeria  globalization and cosmopolitanism  the American Declaration of Independence  Jean-Paul Sartre  the value of objectivity  politics and friendship  and the relationship between deconstruction and actuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646918647861,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804738920","price":31.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804738927.jpg?v=1781681763","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/negotiations-interventions-and-interviews-19712001-cultural-memory-in-the-present-9780804738927","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}