Foreword Introduction 1. Fidelity to Life ~ Hospitable Biopolitics 2. Jacques Derrida’s Bio-thanato-politics 3. The exception Derrida ? The “secret elect” of the animals: The onto-anthropo-theological vein in question 4. Deconstruction’s Animal Promise: From Textual pragmatics to a Categorical Imperative 5. Derrida’s “Very Idea of Democracy” 6. Hyper-Sovereignty and Community: Derrida’s Reading of Heidegger in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II 7. Language by Birth and Nationality by Death: Rethinking Nationalism with Heidegger and Derrida 8. Derrida and Parle-ment (Parliament) 9. Inheritance Indifferent to Legitimacy: A Kind of Ethical and Political First Principle 10. Today's Enlightenment: Jacques Derrida on Europe in the Global Age 11. “What is Proper to a Culture”: Identification and Ethics in Jacques Derrida & Amartya Sen 12. The Notion of Responsibility and the Poetic Revolution in Derrida’s Thought 13. Philosophical Responsibility: Derrida’s Historical and Ethical Task 14. Derrida’s Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility 15. How to Make Impossible Decisions: Jacques Derrida and Ruth Chang on the Ethics of Rational Choice 16. Derrida and the Time of Decision 17. Auto-affection and Ethics: A Derridean Response to Levinas 18. Fugitive Philosophy: Derrida and Lyotard at the Limits of the Law 19. Logics of Alterity in Derrida’s and Deleuze’s Philosophies of Justice 20. An Ethics Worthy of the Name: Of God and Ghosts in Derridean Ethics 21. Quoting the Other. Toward a “Minor” Ethic of Reading 22. Immanent Ethics and Deconstruction 23. Deconstructions as Ethics Without Result: On Derridean Resultlessness, Urgency and Attunement in Contrast to Arendt, Sextus and Kierkegaard After thought ? Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law: Poetics, Sacrifice, Judaism, and the Limits of Decisionism