Politics, Friendship and ‘democracy to come': Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship Conference organised in association with Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 29–30th November 1997).

Including: Richard Beardsworth on the future; Catherine Belsey on Hamlet's ethical decision; Andrew Benjamin on chora, finitude and irrelation; Geoffrey Bennington on philosophical friendship; Simon Critchley on ethics and politics; Jacques Derrida on friendship; Alexander Garcia-Duttman on the “always already relationship”; Bonnie Honig on foreigners and foundations; Ernesto Laclau on undecidability and power; Chantal Mouffe on impossibility and positivity; and Aletta Norval on deconstruction and destiny; with Jonathan Ree and Howard Caygill. What we have to invent is the best perjury possible… or, the least bad. Jacques Derrida, 30th November, 1997