DERRIDA-LEVINAS: AN ALLIANCE AWAITING THE POLITICAL

This book, focusing on the relationship between Derrida and Levinas and the unresolved tension between these two philosophical corpuses, will show what can yet come to democracy and will consequently offer possible interpretations of that which can occur and happen to us politically. We shall question which philosophical and political ideal is in reserve at the heart of a double reading of both Derrida and Levinas. Perhaps this double reading can offer novel modalities of thinking about the multiple crises which inhabit our European, North American, as well as Middle Eastern and global contemporaneity. Are we right in thinking that there still remains, within this philosophical alliance, the possibility to rethink and re-engage the “political” realm in Europe and in the world?