Introduction: Between deconstruction and rational reconstruction -- Philosophy and literature. Leveling the genre distinction between philosophy and literature / Is there a philosophical language? / Habermas, Derrida and the functions of philosophy / Ethics and politics. Allegory of modernity/postmodernity : Habermas and Derrida / Frankfurt impromptu -- remarks on Derrida and Habermas / Performative powerlessness -- a response to Simon Critchley / How to respond to the ethical question / Democracy and difference : reflections on the metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida / Identity/difference : rights, tolerance and political space. Dead rights, live futures : on Habermas's attempt to reconcile constitutionalism and democracy / 'Bizarre, even opaque practice' : Habermas on constitutionalism and democracy / Religious tolerance -- the pacemaker for cultural rights / Hostipitality / Between deliberation and deconstruction : the condition of post national democracy / Beyond the nation -- state : Europe, cosmopolitanism and international law introduction. For a justice to come : an interview with Jacques Derrida / February 15, or what binds Europeans together : a plea for a common foreign policy, beginning in the core of Europe / Between hope and terror : Habermas and Derrida plead for the im/possible / Afterwords. Honesty of thought / Last farewell : Derrida's enlightening impact