Andrew Mitchell & Sam Slote 
Derrida and Joyce 
Texts and Contexts

Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book
Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay ‘The Night Watch.’ In
Ulysses Gramophone, Derrida provides some of his most thorough reflections on affirmation and the ‘yes, ‘ the signature, and the role of technological mediation in all of these areas. In ‘The Night Watch, ‘ Derrida pursues his ruminations on writing in an explicitly feminist direction, offering profound observations on the connection between writing and matricide. Accompanying these texts are nine essays by leading scholars from across the humanities addressing Derrida’s treatments of Joyce throughout his work, and two remembrances of lectures devoted to Joyce that Derrida gave in 1982 and 1984. The volume concludes with photographs of Derrida from these two events.

Table of Content

List of Photographs

Acknowledgments

Key to Abbreviations

Note on the Translations



Introduction: Derrida and Joyce: On Totality and Equivocation


Andrew J. Mitchell and Sam Slote




Part I. Texts by Jacques Derrida




Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce

Yes, Laughter
translated by François Raffoul

Circumstances
translated by François Raffoul

Two Words for Joyce
translated by Geoffrey Bennington

Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce
translated by François Raffoul




The Night Watch

translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas




Part II. Returns



1. Joyce—Event—Derrida—Event—Joyce


Jed Deppman



2. Joyce’s Resonance in
Glas
Sam Slote



3. Meaning Postponed:
The Post Card and
Finnegans Wake
Andrew J. Mitchell



4. The Mother, of All the Phantasms…


Michael Naas


5. Matricidal Writing: Philosophy’s Endgame


Christine van Boheemen-Saaf



Part III. Departures



6.
Sero-Positives: Belatedness and Affirmation in Joyce, Cixous, and Derrida


Laurent Milesi

7. JJ, JD, TV


Louis Armand



8. “mememormee”: Notes on Derrida’s Re-Markings of Desire and Memory in Joyce


Alan Roughley



9. Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money


Simon Critchley and Tom Mc Carthy




Part IV. Recollections



10. Signature/Countersignature: Derrida’s Response to
Ulysses


Derek Attridge



11. Two Joyces for Derrida


Jean-Michel Rabaté



Selection of Photographs

Contributors

Index

About the author

Andrew J. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling.
Sam Slote is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of
The Silence in Progress of Dante, Mallarmé and Joyce and coeditor (with Luca Crispi) of
How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide.