{"product_id":"for-what-tomorrow-a-dialogue-9780804746274","title":"For What Tomorrow...: A Dialogue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For what tomorrow will be, no one knows,\" writes Victor Hugo.\u003c\/p\u003e \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 \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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Derrida, Elisabeth Roudinesco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Cultural Memory in the Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804746274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty-Third Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711323082889,"sku":"9780804746274","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b50c40b9-ea2c-4208-9997-7922e728de7b.jpg?v=1719567162","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/for-what-tomorrow-a-dialogue-9780804746274","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}