Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy

Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Silverman's work was marked by "the between," a concept he developed to think the postmodern in the space between philosophy and non-philosophy. In this volume, leading scholars explore and extend Silverman's philosophical contributions, from reflections on the notions of care, time, and responsibility, to presentations of the practices and possibilities of deconstruction itself. They provide an assessment of Silverman's life and work at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and politics.

Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
Donald A. Landes

Part 1. Inscriptions and Textualities: Silverman’s Deconstructive Practice

2. Enacting the “Between”: Silverman and Continental Philosophy
Gary E. Aylesworth

3. Between Inscriptions: Intertextuality as Philosophical Method
Donald A. Landes

4. Autobiographical Textualities: Hugh J. Silverman on Writing the Self
Galen A. Johnson

Part 2. Silverman and Derrida: Justice/Hospitality/Writing

5. In Memoriam—An Indecidable: For HJS
Michael Naas

6. Of Philosophy, Friendship, and Justice
Debra Bergoffen

7. Return to Sender: The Atopia and Non-Synchronicity of Autobiographizing
Eduardo Mendieta

Part 3. Postmodern Heroes, Subjects, and Responsibilities

8. The Space-in-Between: The Frame and Excess in the Thought of Hugh J. Silverman
Leonard Lawlor

9. From the Death of the Subject to Stories of Natality: Foucault, Arendt, and Silverman
Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

10. The Murderer, the Journalist, and the Responsibility between Us
Peter Gratton

11. Postmodernisms: On a Posthumous Book
Gertrude Postl

Part 4. Care/Time/Community: Remembering Hugh J. Silverman

12. Hugh Silverman’s Cosmopolitan Hospitality
Kelly Oliver

13. Hugh—Taking Time and Taking Care
Edward S. Casey

14. The Silverman Network
Gail Weiss

Afterword

15. The Final Between—Being Inbetween Self: Epigrams Inbetween Epigraphs and Epitaphs
Lee Silverman

Selected Bibliography of Works by Hugh J. Silverman
Kathleen Hulley

Works Cited
Contributors
Index