What’s up with Galilée?

Anyone know what’s going on with the publication of the second volume of Derrida’s La Bête et le souverain. The English translation just appeared, and I heard when the first was published from those in the know that Galilée was holding up publication to one volume per year, but 2009 has almost passed without the second year of Derrida course. I guess I could have just asked someone who would know at SPEP, but better just to raise questions that no one reading this would likely know in a blog post—to hell with efficiency.

(By the way, for those who care about my view, I don’t think we’ll see the breakthrough in studies on Derrida from the publication of these lectures as we did with the publication of Foucault’s courses. For me, there was the Foucault before the lectures were published and the much more interesting Foucault after the lectures. Not that there isn’t a link between the two, but Foucault’s work in the lectures offers less totalizing views of the periods under discussion and it’s much more experimental. A lot of Derrida’s lectures have already been published and though I’ve seen some good stuff at the archives in Irvine, I don’t think you’ll see the massive onslaught of publications that greeted a lot of Foucault lectures’ publication. But hopefully I’m wrong—it’s be nice to see new work in readings of Derrida that make me revisit his work with fresh eyes again.)