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Author |
: Sean Gaston |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2010-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441164506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441164502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida by : Sean Gaston
At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. But how does one respond to the death of Jacques Derrida? How does one mourn for Derrida, who spent thirty years warning of the dangers of mourning, while insisting that mourning is both unavoidable and impossible? In this original and engaging response to Derrida's death, Sean Gaston re-examines his own relationship with this great thinker and traces his own mourning, while examining the very nature of mourning in Derrida's work. Written in the immediate aftermath of Derrida's death, this insightful and touching account offers a fresh analysis of a vital element of Derrida's thought and a genuine reflection on the implications of Derrida's death for how we will now address his work.
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2003-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226142817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226142814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Work of Mourning by : Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher—if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an illustrious career, and, among many who were his colleagues and peers, he inspired friendship. The Work of Mourning is a collection that honors those friendships in the wake of passing. Gathered here are texts—letters of condolence, memorial essays, eulogies, funeral orations—written after the deaths of well-known figures: Roland Barthes, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabès, Louis Marin, Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie Benoist, Joseph Riddel, and Michel Servière. With his words, Derrida bears witness to the singularity of a friendship and to the absolute uniqueness of each relationship. In each case, he is acutely aware of the questions of tact, taste, and ethical responsibility involved in speaking of the dead—the risks of using the occasion for one's own purposes, political calculation, personal vendetta, and the expiation of guilt. More than a collection of memorial addresses, this volume sheds light not only on Derrida's relation to some of the most prominent French thinkers of the past quarter century but also on some of the most important themes of Derrida's entire oeuvre-mourning, the "gift of death," time, memory, and friendship itself. "In his rapt attention to his subjects' work and their influence upon him, the book also offers a hesitant and tangential retelling of Derrida's own life in French philosophical history. There are illuminating and playful anecdotes—how Lyotard led Derrida to begin using a word-processor; how Paul de Man talked knowledgeably of jazz with Derrida's son. Anyone who still thinks that Derrida is a facetious punster will find such resentful prejudice unable to survive a reading of this beautiful work."—Steven Poole, Guardian "Strikingly simpa meditations on friendship, on shared vocations and avocations and on philosophy and history."—Publishers Weekly
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 1996-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226143064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226143066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gift of Death by : Jacques Derrida
In The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion to date, he continues to explore questions introduced in Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Patocka's Heretical Essays on the History of Philosophy and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Levinas, and Kierkegaard. A major work, The Gift of Death resonates with much of Derrida's earlier writing and will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, philosophy, and literary criticism, along with scholars of ethics and religion. "The Gift of Death is Derrida's long-awaited deconstruction of the foundations of the project of a philosophical ethics, and it will long be regarded as one of the most significant of his many writings."—Choice "An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of relgion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida."—Booklist "Derrida stares death in the face in this dense but rewarding inquiry. . . . Provocative."—Publishers Weekly
Author |
: Elisabeth Weber |
Publisher |
: Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780823249923 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0823249921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Living Together: by : Elisabeth Weber
For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of 'community, ' 'living, ' and 'together' never ceased to harbour radical, in fact infinite interrogations. In this volume, the paradoxes, impossibilities, and singular chances that haunt the necessity of 'living together' are evoked in Derrida's essay 'Avowing--The Impossible' around which the collection is gathered.
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2012-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136758607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136758607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Specters of Marx by : Jacques Derrida
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values. In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2023-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226826448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226826449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life Death by : Jacques Derrida
The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of topics across philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. Derrida gave this seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale supérieure in Paris to prepare students for the agrégation, a notoriously competitive exam. The theme for the exam that year was “Life and Death,” but Derrida made a critical modification to the title by dropping the coordinating conjunction. The resulting title of Life Death poses a philosophical question about the close relationship between life and death. Through close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem, Derrida argues that death must be considered neither as the opposite of life nor as the truth or fulfillment of it, but rather as that which both limits life and makes it possible. Derrida thus not only questions traditional understandings of the relationship between life and death but also ultimately develops a new way of thinking about what he calls “life death.”
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2021-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226816074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226816079 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing and Difference by : Jacques Derrida
First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,—new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.
Author |
: Geoffrey Bennington |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2011-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748653751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748653759 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Not Half No End by : Geoffrey Bennington
A collection of essays by one of Jacques Derrida's friends and foremost commentators. Newly available in paperback.
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804734062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804734066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Of Hospitality by : Jacques Derrida
Consisting of two texts on facing pages, the form of this presentation of two 1996 lectures on hospitality by Jacques Derrida is a self-conscious enactment of its content. Invitation by Anne Dufourmantelle appears on the left (an invitation that of course originates a response), clarifying and inflecting Derrida's "response" on the right.
Author |
: Jacques Derrida |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 169 |
Release |
: 2008-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226142777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226142779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by : Jacques Derrida
Translator's preface to the 2007 edition -- The gift of death -- Secrets of European responsibility -- Beyond : giving for the taking, teaching and learning to give, death -- Whom to give to (knowing not to know) -- Tout autre est tout autre -- Literature in secret : an impossible filiation -- The test of secrecy : for the one as for the other -- Father, son, and literature -- More than one