Jacques Derrida, Khora
Three months ago I invited a number of friends and colleagues to contribute to an issue dedicated to Jacques Derrida. I asked them to contribute with work in progress, reminiscences, essays not necessarily "on Jacques Derrida." The genre was not defined, but the gesture, in a way, in its unique purpose, was. The response was overwhelming, in spite of, in a large number of cases, very limited time given to some of the participants to respond. So, the following is, or as Jacques Derrida likes to say, will have been, maybe, a gift. Not a gift "in return," an outcome of a predictable economy. The following essays are more an attempt to respond to Jacques Derrida's generous offer: for it seems that all his lectures and writing, over the years, apart from their tremendous philosophical importance, have also been, (or maybe have been first of all) an invitation to others, to write, work, celebrate, and participate in the space of affirmation, generosity and responsibility opened by his work. Certainly not by merely repeating or mimicking his ideas as the essays in this volume attest to. Derrida's work opens up a space a khora where thinking and writing have, will have, found their affirmation. For me this aspect of Derrida's work has been, over the years, a source of unceasing fascination. This issue is an attempt and I am sure that I can speak in the name of all the Khoraographers among so many others, but especially on this date, in singular acts of friendship, to listen and try to respond to the call of this invitation.
Dragan Kujundzic
Guest Editor, Khoraographies
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Derek Attridge Geoffrey Bennington Robert Bernasconi Myriam van der Brempt Tina Chanter Laura Chiesa Zeynep Direk Mark Driscoll Cara Johnson + Tina Chanter Jonathan Judaken Peggy Kamuf Len Lawlor Deborah Levitt Akira Mizuta Lippit Laurent Milesi J. Hillis Miller Michael Naas Jean-Luc Nancy Catherine Peebles Helen Petrovsky Peggy Phelan Petar Ramadanovic Richard Rand Mikhail Ryklin Obrad Savic Marcos Siscar Sven Spieker Ronald Sundstrom Peter Szendy Elisabeth Weber Brigitte Weltman-Aron David Wills Tomislav Longinovic Bettina Bergo Dragan Kujundzic |
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Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida
on July 15, 2000 |
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| Tympanum 4 Guest Editor : Dragan Kujundzic General Editor : Peter Woodruff
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