Obscure Gifts: On Jacques Derrida

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pheng cheah teaches in the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Inhuman Conditions:Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture(Harvard University Press, 2006) and Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (Columbia University Press, 2003) and the coeditor of Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (Routledge, 2003) and Cosmopolitics:Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation (University of Minnesota Press,1998). He is currently working on a manuscript on financialization, human rights, and the inhuman for Harvard University Press.