The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Michael Naas from DePaul University. It will take place on Thursday, April 3rd at the Ford Alumni Center Room 202. The title of the lecture is “Pray Tell: Derrida’s Performative Justice.”

Professor Naas was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary French philosophy. His approach to the classics is informed by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, and Levinas. He is the author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (Humanities, 1994), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (Stanford, 2003), Derrida From Now On (Fordham, 2008), and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (Fordham, 2012). He is currently completing a book on Derrida’s final seminars, The Beast and the Sovereign. His recent published work includes co-translations of Jacques Derrida’s The Other Heading (Indiana, 1992), Memoirs of the Blind (Chicago, 1993), Adieu (Stanford, 1999), Rogues (Stanford, 2004), and Learning to Live Finally (Melville, 2007).