Philosophy, Language and the Political: Poststructuralism in Perspective

This book examines Derrida’s legacy, deconstruction, and political theory through anlysis of Foucault, Agamben, and Blanchot, concepts of hauntology, spectrality, and the politics of language while offering contemporary perspectives on poststructuralist philosophy and its relevance to current political discourse.

Franson Manjali serves as professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His publications include: Literature and Infinity, Language, Discourse and Culture - Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives and more recently, Labyrinths of Language Philosophical and Cultural Investigations. He has translated several scholarly texts from the French into English, notably Jean-Luc Nancy’s Philosophical Chronicles.

Marc Crépon is Director of Research with the CNRS. He is currently Chair, Department of Philosophy at École normale supérieure (Paris). Among his publications are: Le Malin genie des langues, Les promesses du langage, Benjamin, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Neitzsche, l’art de la politique de l’avenir, Terreur et poesie, Langues sans demeure, La culture de la peur, identite, securite, democratie, Vivre avec, la pensee de la mort et la memoire des guerres (Tr., The Thought of Death and the Memory of War, 2013.); La guerre des civilisations, Le consentement meurtrier, la litterature et la philosophie a l’epreuve de la violence, and L’epreuve de la haine, essais sur le refus de la violence.