The Verge of Philosophy

The Verge of Philosophy is in one sense a memorial for Sallis's longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in Derrida's thought: his interpretation of Heidegger regarding the privileging of the question, Derrida's account of the Platonic figure of the good, and his interpretation of Plato's discourse on the elusive notion of the receptacle of all things, which Plato designates by the enigmatic word chora. Sallis's explorations are given added weight-even poignancyby his discussion of his many public and private philosophical conversations with Derrida over the decades of their friendship. The Verge of Philosophy thus simultaneously serves to mourn and remember a friend and to push forward the deeply searching discussions that lay at the very heart of that friendship.