Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 20:51:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: HAB: another new book


According to the U.Chicago Press notice, updated last week,
the book is supposed to be published very soon:

Borradori, Giovanna
Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen
Habermas and Jacques Derrida. 224 p. 5_1/2 x 8_1/2 2003

Cloth $25.00 0-226-06664-9 Spring 2003

Table of Contents
PREFACE
Philosophy in a Time of Terror
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Terrorism and the Legacy of the Enlightenment--Habermas and
Derrida
PART ONE
Fundamentalism and Terror--A Dialogue with Jürgen Habermas
Reconstructing Terrorism--Habermas
PART TWO
Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides--A Dialogue with
Jacques Derrida
Deconstructing Terrorism--Derrida 

The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours
after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and came to realization
just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with
Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, in separate
interviews, in New York City. Habermas and Derrida
evaluated the significance of the most destructive
terrorist attack ever perpetrated. The resulting book is an
unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential
thinkers of our age: here for the first time Habermas and
Derrida overcome their antagonism and agree to appear side
by side in this book.

In her introduction, Borradori contends that philosophy has
an invaluable contribution to make to the understanding of
terrorism. Just as the traumas produced by colonialism,
totalitarianism, and the Holocaust wrote the history of the
twentieth century, the history of the twenty-first century
is already signed by global terrorism. Each dialogue,
accompanied by a critical essay, recognizes the magnitude
of this upcoming challenge. Characteristically, Habermas's
dialogue is dense, compact, and elegantly traditional.
Derrida's, on the other hand, takes the reader on a long,
winding, and unpredictable road. Yet unexpected agreements
emerge between them: both have a deep suspicion of the
concept of "terrorism" and see the need for a transition
from classical international law, premised on the model of
nation-states, to a new cosmopolitan order based on
continental alliances.

As Derrida and Habermas disassemble and reassemble what we
think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar
social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized
between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the
greatest philosophical minds at work.





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