This volume brings together five essays by Jacques Derrida that advance his reflections on many issues: lying perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and cruelty, soverignty, and capital punishment.

Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Stanford has published twelve of his books, most recently Negotiations: Interventions and Interviews, 1971-2001 (2002) and Who's Afraid of Philosophy?: Right to Philosophy 1 (2002)