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Beyond these explicit political interventions, however, Derrida was engaged in rethinking politics and the political itself, within and beyond philosophy.

Derrida insisted that a distinct political undertone had pervaded his texts from the very beginning of his career.

Nevertheless, the attempt to understand the political implications of notions of responsibility, reason of state, the other, decision, sovereignty, Europe, friendship, difference, faith, and so on, became much more marked from the early 1990s on.

By 2000, theorizing " democracy to come ," and thinking the limitations of existing democracies, had become important concerns.