Contributors
- Contributors
Valerio Adami is one of the foremost contemporary European painters. Known for his celebrated portraits of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin, Adami's work has been a source of reflection for philosophers from Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida to Jean Luc Nancy and Michel Onfray. The importance of his works is evidenced in numerous solo exhibitions, as well as several major retrospectives: in 1985 in Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris, repeated in Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, and, more recently, retrospectives in Museum Frissiras in Athens (2004) and the Pomodoro Foundation in Milan (2008). Valerio Adami has painted or drawn a number of portraits of Jacques Derrida over many years. The portrait of Derrida on the cover has been painted for Michel Onfray, Le Chiffre de la peinture: L'oeuvre de Valerio Adami (2008), and is reproduced here, with exclusive permission from Valerio Adami, © Valerio Adami 2008.
Geoffrey Bennington, Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University, has authored a dozen books on philosophical and literary-theoretical matters, including Other Analyses (2005), Open Book/Livre ouvert (2005), and Not Half No End (forthcoming 2009). He has also translated many works by Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Derrida, most recently Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign (forthcoming 2009), is a member of the editorial team preparing the French edition of forty volumes of Derrida's seminars, and (with Peggy Kamuf) is general editor of the English edition of those seminars, to be published by Chicago University Press.
Hélène Cixous is professor emeritus at the Université de Paris 8, a university she helped create in 1968. She established France's first doctoral program in women's studies there in 1974. Her seminar has been cosponsored by the Collège International de Philosophie since 1984. Called "the greatest writer … in French" by Jacques [End Page 273] Derrida, she has published some fifty full-length books of fiction, as well as dozens of important theoretical essays, including the muchanthologized "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1975). She is also a dramatist and has written for Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil for twenty-five years. Her recent books in English translation include Dream I Tell You (2006), Reveries of the Wild Woman (2006), The Day I Wasn't There (2006), Manhattan: Letters from Prehistory (2008), Love Itself: In the Letter Box (2008), White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics (2008), Hyperdream (2009), and two books related to Jacques Derrida: Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (2004) and Insister of Jacques Derrida (2008).
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), one of the leading thinkers of our time, was the author of numerous groundbreaking books, including Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Writing and Difference, The Truth in Painting, Aporias, Archive Fever, Specters of Marx, Without Alibi, The Rogues, and The Beast and the Sovereign. Jacques Derrida's legacy consists also of more than forty volumes of his seminars, to be published in both French and English. A selection from the 1980 seminar on comparative literature and translation is exclusively published for the first time in this special issue, with the generous permission of Marguerite Derrida, © Succession Derrida 2009.
Peggy Kamuf, professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, writes on literary theory and contemporary French thought, particularly that of Jacques Derrida. Her most recent book is Book of Addresses (2005). She has translated numerous texts by Jacques Derrida and edited several others, most recently the two volumes of Psyche: Inventions of the Other (2007). Professor Kamuf is a member of the editorial team preparing the French edition of forty volumes of Derrida's seminars, and (with Geoffrey Bennington) is general editor of the English edition of those seminars, to be published by with Chicago University Press.
Dragan Kujundžić is professor of Germanic and Slavic studies, film and media studies, and Jewish studies at the University of Florida. He has published numerous articles in these and related fields. His editorial work includes guest editor of "Khoraographies for Jacques Derrida on July 15, 2000," special issue, Tympanum 4 (2000); editor of Provocations to Reading: Essays for a Democracy to...
