This collection of essays and interviews, some previously unpublished and almost all of which appear in English for the first time, encompasses the political and ethical thinking of Jacques Derrida over 30 years. Introduction: Inheriting the Future 1(10) Elizabeth Rottenberg PART I. NEGOTIATIONS Negotiations 11(30) Letter to Jean Genet (Fragments) 41(5) Declarations of Independence 46(9) What I Would Have Said... 55(14) Economies of the Crisis 69(5) Events? What Events? 74(3) ``Pardon me for taking you at your word'' 77(8) The Deconstruction of Actuality 85(32) Taking Sides for Algeria 117(8) For Mumia Abu-Jamal 125(5) Open Letter to Bill Clinton 130(3) Derelictions of the Right to Justice 133(14) PART II. THINKING AT ITS LIMITS Politics and Friendship 147(52) The Aforementioned So-Called Human Genome 199(16) Nietzsche and the Machine 215(42) ``Dead Man Running'': Salut, Salut 257(38) PART III. ETHICS AND POLITICS TODAY Ethics and Politics Today 295(20) On the ``Priceless,'' or the ``Going Rate'' of the Transaction 315(14) The Right to Philosophy from a Cosmopolitan Point of View 329(14) As If It Were Possible, ``Within Such Limits''... 343(28) Globalization, Peace, and Cosmopolitanism 371(16) Notes 387