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<p>“For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,” writes Victor Hugo.</p> <p>This dialogue, proposed to Jacques Derrida by the historian Elisabeth Roudinesco, brings together two longtime friends who share a common history and an intellectual heritage. While their perspectives are often different, they have many common reference points: psychoanalysis, above all, but also the authors and works that have come to be known outside France as “post-structuralist.”</p> <p>Beginning with a revealing glance back at the French intellectual scene over the past forty years, Derrida and Roudinesco go on to address a number of major social and political issues. Their extraordinarily wide-ranging discussion covers topics such as immigration, hospitality, gender equality, and “political correctness”; the disordering of the traditional family, same-sex unions, and reproductive technologies; the freedom of the “subject” over and against “scientism”; violence against animals; the haunting specter of communism and revolution; the present and future of anti-Semitism (as well as that which marked Derrida’s own history) and the hazardous politics of criticizing the state of Israel; the principled abolition

Who reads For What Tomorrow . . .: A Dialogue (Cultural Memory in the Present)?

Author

Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Roudinesco , Jeff Fort

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804746274

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Western, History

Rating

4.15 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14