After Derrida. Literature, theory and criticism in the 21st century

After Derrida, a volume of essays brought together by Jean-Michel Rabaté, takes stock of Jacques Derrida's continuing presence in the humanities today. Neither work of homage, nor of historicising contextualisation, nor an introduction to the philosopher's oeuvre, nor a critical assessment of one its aspects, the volume stands resolutely on the platform of the present. Hence its Janus-face perspective: the after in the title indicates both the leaving behind and the pursuit of an object imagined as still ahead. Indeed, each essay might be read as testing the two extreme hypotheses Derrida himself sketched out concerning the future of his work in the last interview he gave before his death in 2004