{"product_id":"for-what-tomorrow-9780804746274","title":"For What Tomorrow . . .","description":"\u003cp\u003e“For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,” writes Victor Hugo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning 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 of the death penalty; and, to conclude, a chapter “in praise of psychoanalysis.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese exchanges not only help to situate Derrida's thought within the milieu out of which it grew, they also show more clearly than ever how this thought, impelled by a deep concern for justice, can be brought to bear on the social and political issues of our day. What emerges here above all, far from an abstract, apolitical discourse, is a call to take responsibility—for the inheritance of a past, for the singularities of the present, and for the unforeseeable tasks of the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacques Derrida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48297275359483,"sku":"9780804746274","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780804746274_1940aabb-1098-4178-9c37-57e8071a219d.jpg?v=1772482469","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/for-what-tomorrow-9780804746274","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}