Derrida and Legal Philosophy

FRIEDRICH BALKE teaches Philosophy and German Literature, University of Cologne and Bochum, Germany SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy, the New School University, New York, USA ADAM GEAREY is Reader in Law, Birkbeck Law School, University of London, UK PETRA GEHRING is University Professor for Theoretical Philosophy, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany DUNCAN KENNEDY is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, USA PETER KRAPP is Associate Professor of Film& Media Studies, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies, University of California Irvine, USA PIERRE LEGRAND is Professor of Law at University of Paris 1, France ANNE ORFORD is Professor of Law at University of Melbourne, Australia AVITAL RONELL is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, as well as being Director of the Center for Trauma and Violence Transdisciplinary Studies at New York University, USA ADAM THURSCHWELL teaches at Cleveland Marshall College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio, USA ELISABETH WEBER teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: A Philosophy of Legal Enigmas; P.Goodrich, F.Hoffman, M.Rosenfeld & C.Vismann PART I: THEORIES The Reader: Derrida Among the Philosophers; S.Critchley European introduction: Four Objections; D.Kennedy The Archive and the Beginning of Law; C.Vismann The Jurisprudence of the 'Force of Law'; P.Gehring Derrida's Ethical Turn: The Case of Terrorism; M.Rosenfeld Derrida and Foucault on Sovereignty; F.Balke PART II: DISCIPLINES Critical Intimacies: International Law; A.Orford 'Il n'y a pas de hors-texte': Intimations of Jacques Derrida as Comparatist-at-Law; P.Legrand Specters and Scholars: Derrida and the Tragedy of Political Thought; A.Thurschwell Between Forgiveness and Forgetting; P.Krapp Phantom and Justice; E.Weber Deadlines: Derrida and Critical Legal Scholarship; F.Hoffman Literature, Poetics, Law; A.Geary PART III: ENVOI Un Cygne Noir; P.Goodrich Saying Good-Bye; A.Ronell Index