Diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism Vol. 38, No. 1-2 spring-summer 2009

Derrida and Democracy
Special editors, Jonathan Culler and Phillip E. Lewis

Part One

Jonathan Culler
Derrida and democracy

Jonathan Culler
“The most interesting thing in the world”

David Wills
Passionate secrets and democratic dissidence

Peggy Kamuf
Signed Paine, or panic in literature

Henry Sussman
Pulsations of respect, or winged impossibility: literature with deconstruction

Michael G. Levine
Spectral gatherings: Derrida, Celan, and the covenant of the word

Part Two

Geoffrey Bennington
For better and for worse (there again . . .)

Samuel Weber
Rogue democracy

Samir Haddad
A genealogy of violence, from light to the autoimmune

Pheng Cheah
Nondialectical materialism

Avital Ronell
Untread and untried: Nietzsche reads derridemocracy

Richard Klein
Knowledge of the future: future fables

Part Three

Ernesto Laclau
Is radical atheism a good name for deconstruction?

Martin Hägglund
Time, desire, politics: a reply to Ernesto Laclau