Derrida, Supplements

Jean-Luc Nancy first read Jacques Derrida in the 1960s and recognized at once that he was hearing something new, a voice truly of its moment. Over a long friendship the two thinkers worked with and against each other, and together they reshaped the European intellectual landscape. This volume gathers Nancy's writings on Derrida. They reflect on the concerns the two men shared: politics, the arts, religion, the fate of deconstruction and the future of sense. Nancy does not offer studies, commentaries or interpretations of Derrida's thought. The pieces are instead responses to Derrida's presence, which Nancy describes as not quite a presence to self but a presence in the world.