Author: Gareth (Gareth Williams)

Gareth WilliamsUniversity of Michigan Volume 12, 2017 My presentation is framed as a question, but is simply an attempt to think alongside scatter, with no definitive response to the question itself. Via the “politics of politics” in Foucault, Heidegger and Derrida, Geoffrey Bennington’s Scatter 1 posits a thinking not of the political per se, but of a certain...

Alberto MoreirasTexas A&M University Volume 12, 2017 Geoffrey Bennington tells us or has been telling us all along in Scatter 1 that its continuation, “Scatter 2,” will be a book about “democracy.” And then, at the end of Scatter 1, Bennington says that a book on democracy is or will be also a book about “the future of deconstruction.”...

Ronald Mendoza-de JesúsUniversity of Southern California Volume 12, 2017 When I wrote to the organizers of this event and told them that the title of my intervention was “to be decided,” I could not yet see that this placeholder would have become the first part of my actual title, since I could not have yet anticipated...

Humberto González NúñezVillanova University Volume 12, 2017 The appearance of Geoffrey Bennington’s recent book, Scatter 1: The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida (New York: Fordham UP, 2016), constitutes a veritable event—of reading—that offers an important intervention in contemporary philosophical thought and its political consequences. Already in the subtitle, one notices the very phrase that will play...

Alberto MoreirasTexas A&M University Volume 12, 2017 The meeting took place at Texas A&M on March 24, 2017. We had invited Geoffrey Bennington to present his next book project, “Scatter 2,” in the context of an ample discussion of Scatter 1. We regret the absence in this dossier of the position paper by Teresa M. Vilarós. Matías...

Gerardo MuñozLehigh University Volume 13, 2019 Schmitt’s grandeur is to be found in his genealogy, that is, in his idea that to understand politics one must first understand the concrete origin. Carlo Galli A democracy devoid of a political center and the capacity to analyze its own dynamics and being capable of responding to them, will...

Alberto MoreirasTexas A&M University Volume 13, 2019 “Faut le faire/ca me regarde” Jacques Derrida, Théorie, p. 37 I. Towards the impasse. Is there a third position? One gets the impression at times that Jacques Derrida’s 1975-76 seminar Théorie et pratique was conceived as a merely pedagogical enterprise—a matter of letting the students know something that Derrida had established...

Sergio Villalobos-Ruminottuniversity of michigan Volume 14, 2020 The present elucidations do not claim to be contributions to research in the history of literature or to aesthetics. They spring from a necessity of thought. Martin Heidegger, Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry (1971). D’autre part ce privilège absolu d’un lieu et d’une langue est ici implicitement reconnu non seulement au Dichten, au Gedicht mais au Denken,...

Humberto González NúñezVillanova University Volume 13, 2019 “What I have attempted to do would not have been possible without the opening of Heidegger’s questions.” Jacques Derrida[1] In the present essay, I trace the way in which Derrida engages the theme of the destruction of philosophy[2] in his reading of Heidegger’s work in the 1964-65 seminar, Heidegger: The Question of...

Shannon DowdNiagara University Volume 13, 2019 “Naturally, when he speaks of war, Heidegger does not tell stories…” Jacques Derrida, Heidegger: The Question of Being and History, p. 199 What does war mean to Heidegger? And what does war mean for Derrida’s interpretation of Heidegger? In Heidegger’s Being and Time and Introduction to Metaphysics, war—understood broadly as struggle and confrontation—forms part of...