Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida

The collection Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida: Writing between Politics, Poetics, and Philosophy addresses the convergence of insight in the works of two of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century. Both Arendt and Derrida have played a decisive role in reorienting the concerns and methods of philosophy, political theory, and literary studies in recent decades, with implications that extend across the humanities. This volume is the first collection of readings on the relationship between the two thinkers from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses political and critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, and philosophy. It presents a wealth of approaches for thinking about the pressing ethical and political questions that their work raises. Despite notable differences in style, approach, frame of reference, and disciplinary background Arendt and Derrida share a common attempt to challenge the predominant methods and questions of philosophy in order to