"This splendid translation of Derrida's last 10 seminars brings to completion the 23 seminars he devoted to "The Beast and the Sovereign"....Derrida's argument proceeds through a juxtaposition of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Heidegger's The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, wherein the shipwrecked sailor on the "Island of Despair," haunted by phantasms of death and being buried alive, becomes a fellow traveler of the German phenomenologist who, over two centuries later, is no less beset by the thought of that which overwhelms thinking....Derrida shows how these disparate writers and texts engage an enigmatic otherness that captivates and rules over them."– "Choice" (3/6/2012 12:00:00 AM)