Society for the Study of Difference

Hugh J. Silverman

Honorary Member SSD

for additional information visit: silverman-homepage

Areas of interest:

Radical hermeneutics, the radical affirmation of an unforeseeable ethical and political future and of the possibility of being otherwise, the space between deconstruction and religion.

Main difference-related publications:

INSCRIPTIONS

BETWEEN PHENOMENOLOGY AND STRUCTURALISM

(London and New York: Routledge, Kegan and Paul, 1987)

INSCRIPTIONS

AFTER PHENOMENOLOGY AND STRUCTURALISM
    Second edition, with a new Preface

  (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997)

TEXTUALITIES

BETWEEN HERMENEUTICS AND DECONSTRUCTION  

(New York and London: Routledge, 1994)

TEXTUALITÄTEN

ZWISCHEN HERMENEUTIK UND DEKONSTRUKTION

(Vienna: Turia & Kant, 1997).

German translation by Erik Michael Vogt.

TESTUALITÀ

TRA ERMENEUTICA E DECONSTRUZIONE

(Milano: Spirali, 2004).

Italian translation by Paolo Cappelletti and Valentina Grimaldi.

Includes new Author’s Introduction to the Italian Reader with a Presentation by Carlo Sini (Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy).

God, the Gift and Postmodernism, eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999)

Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, (Edited with a Commentary by John D. Caputo), (New York: Fordham Unviersity Press, 1997).

God, the Gift and Postmodernism, (eds. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon), (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).

Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (with Mark Yount) (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).

Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project, Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Hugh J. Silverman, Professor of Philosophy, and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3750
Tel: (631) 331-4598; (631) 632-7592

Email: hugh.silverman@stonybrook.edu