Critical Intimacy: Jacques Derrida and the Friendship of Politics

German Law Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-42

  Orford, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 62149133131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20718322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200013432     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. JACQUES DERRIDA, THE WORK OF MOURNING 74, 115 (2001).
2. Admittedly, my first thought was: how uncomfortable, that's a lot of people to have under your skin; sounds quite lumpy.
3. JACQUES DERRIDA, OF GRAMMATOLOGY 157-164 (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak trans., 1976).
4. GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK, A CRITIQUE OF POSTCOLONIAL REASON: TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE VANISHING PRESENT 425 (1999).
5. DERRIDA, supra note 1 at 201.
6. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST, I, 2.
7. Nina Philadelphoff-Puren and Peter Rush, Fatal (F)laws: Law, Literature and Writing, 14 LAW AND CRITIQUE 191, 202 (2003).
8. JACQUES DERRIDA, SPECTERS OF MARX: THE STATE OF THE DEBT, THE WORK OF MOURNING, & THE NEW INTERNATIONAL 86 (Peggy Kamuf trans., 1994).
9. This reading of the meaning of this sense of crisis in the discipline of international law is developed in: Anne Orford, The Destiny of International Law, 17 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 441-476 (2004).
10. Hilary Charlesworth, International Law: A Discipline of Crisis, 65 MODERN LAW REVIEW 377 (2002).
11. Jacques Derrida, Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority, 11 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 921, 943 (1990).
12. JACQUES DERRIDA, THE POST CARD: FROM SOCRATES TO FREUD AND BEYOND 353 (Alan Bass trans., 1987) (discussing the tradition of psychoanalysis in these terms).
13. See Orford, supra note 9 at 464-476.
14. SPIVAK, supra note 4 at 426 (suggesting that where Derrida's earlier work was concerned to guard the question or insist "on the priority of an unanswerable question, " his later work has "a greater emphasis on ethics.").
15. JACQUES DERRIDA, THE GIFT OF DEATH (David Wills trans., 1995).
16. See ANNE ORFORD, TRADE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ECONOMY OF SACRIFICE, Jean Monnet Working Paper 03/04, NYU School of Law, available at http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/04/040301.html. A substantially revised version of this paper will be published in 2005 in the Leiden Journal of International Law symposium on aesthetics and international law.
17. On the reward of the righteous, see Matthew, 10:34-40 (Revised Standard Version).
18. Medieval Christian Theology, 18 AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST LAW JOURNAL 27 (2003);
19. Judith E. Grbich, Aesthetics in Christian Juridico-Theological Tracts: The Wanderings of Faith and Nomos, 12 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW 351 (2000).
20. Jay S Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, US Department of Justice, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. Sections 2340-2340A (August 1, 2002)
21. SHABTAI ROSENNE, THE PERPLEXITIES OF MODERN INTERNATIONAL LAW 216, 234 (2004).
22. ANNE ORFORD, READING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE USE OF FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 203-219 (2003).
23. COSTAS DOUZINAS, THE END OF HUMAN RIGHTS 357 (2000).
24. Klaus Günther, The Legacies of Injustice and Fear: A European Approach to Human Rights and their Effects on Political Culture, in THE EU AND HUMAN RIGHTS 117-144 (Philip Alston ed., 1999).
25. Günther, supra note 30 at 126-7.
26. Franz Kafka, Before the Law, in METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES 165-166 (Malcolm Pasley trans., 1992).
27. For a related exploration of this question, see ORFORD, supra note 26 at chapter 6.
28. DERRIDA, supra note 1 at 201;
29. see, particularly, JACQUES DERRIDA, THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP (George Collins trans., 1997);
30. and the beautiful collection of elegies and lamentations written by Derrida after the deaths of his friends and collected in DERRIDA, supra note 1.
31. JACQUES LACAN, LE SÉMINAIRE, LIVRE II: LE MOI DANS LA THÉORIE DE FREUD AT DANS LA TECHNIQUE PSYCHANALYTIQUE 250
32. Jane Gallop, The Father's Seduction, in DAUGHTERS & FATHERS 97, 99 (Lynda E. Boose and Betty S. Flowers eds., 1989).
33. SHOSHANA FELMAN, THE SCANDAL OF THE SPEAKING BODY: DON JUAN WITH J L AUSTIN, OR SEDUCTION IN TWO LANGUAGES 16 (2003).