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Michael Naas is one of the most authoritative interpreters anywhere of Jacques Derrida's work. Naas's writing about Derrida is characterized by a remarkable intellectual generosity. The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments is a brilliant reading of Derrida's last seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign (2001-2003). Naas provides an exegesis of that seminar both in itself and in the light of an amazing in-depth knowledge of all Derrida's previous work, back to its beginning in the 1960's. This distinguished book is an essential guide for all those who are perplexed in one way or another by Derrida's writings. -- -J. Hillis Miller * UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and English at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine * Naas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of Derrida's work. -- -Jeffrey Nealon * Pennsylvania State University * The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments is a striking tribute to the end of the world that was Derrida, and it lives up to the responsibility of carrying forward what remains. -- -Kelly Oliver * Vanderbilt University * With his luminous and generous intelligence, Michael Naas makes the task of reading Derrida look easy. But that's only because, like the finest of teachers, he takes us patiently through the difficulties and countenances bravely the disconcerting turns taken by this final seminar, what he calls its teachable moments. Naas's clarity of thought, the acuteness of his ear, and the deftness of his writing are gifts that readers appreciate on every page. This book will be indispensable reading from now on for whoever attends to Derrida's seminars. -- -Peggy Kamuf * University of Southern California *

GCGBPNaas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of DerridaGCOs work.GC[yen] GCoJeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University Naas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of Derrida's work. -Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University The End of the World is a striking tribute to the end of the world that was Derrida; and it lives up to the responsibility of carrying forward what remains. -Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University With his luminous and generous intelligence, Michael Naas makes the task of reading Derrida look easy. But that's only because, like the finest of teachers, he takes us patiently through the difficulties and countenances bravely the disconcerting turns taken by this final seminar, what he calls its teachable moments. Naas's clarity of thought, the acuteness of his ear, and the deftness of his writing are gifts that readers appreciate on every page. This book will be indispensable reading from now on for whoever attends to Derrida's seminars. --Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

Naas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of Derrida's work. -Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University The End of the World is a striking tribute to the end of the world that was Derrida; and it lives up to the responsibility of carrying forward what remains. -Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University With his luminous and generous intelligence, Michael Naas makes the task of reading Derrida look easy. But that's only because, like the finest of teachers, he takes us patiently through the difficulties and countenances bravely the disconcerting turns taken by this final seminar, what he calls its teachable moments. Naas's clarity of thought, the acuteness of his ear, and the deftness of his writing are gifts that readers appreciate on every page. This book will be indispensable reading from now on for whoever attends to Derrida's seminars. --Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

Naas solidifies his singular place as our most brilliant and incisive scholar of Derrida's work. -Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University The End of the World is a striking tribute to the end of the world that was Derrida; and it lives up to the responsibility of carrying forward what remains. -Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University With his luminous and generous intelligence, Michael Naas makes the task of reading Derrida look easy. But that's only because, like the finest of teachers, he takes us patiently through the difficulties and countenances bravely the disconcerting turns taken by this final seminar, what he calls its teachable moments. Naas's clarity of thought, the acuteness of his ear, and the deftness of his writing are gifts that readers appreciate on every page. This book will be indispensable reading from now on for whoever attends to Derrida's seminars. --Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California

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Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage (2022), Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America (2022), Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (2020), Plato and the Invention of Life (2018), The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida’s Final Seminar (2015), Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (2012), Derrida From Now On (2008), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (2003), and Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (1994). He is co-translator of a number of books by Jacques Derrida, including Life Death (2020), and is a member of the Derrida Seminars Editorial Team.

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