By Jacques Derrida
ISBN-10: 0823256502
ISBN-13: 9780823256501
"For Strasbourg comprises a chain of essays and interviews through French thinker and literary theorist Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) concerning the urban of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships he built there over a 40 yr interval. Written justmonths sooner than his demise, the outlet essay of the gathering, "The position name(s): Strasbourg," recounts in nice aspect, and in very relocating phrases, Derrida's deep attachment to this French urban at the border among France and Germany. greater than only a own narrative, besides the fact that, it's a profound interrogation of the connection among philosophy and position, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship. As such, it increases a chain of philosophical, political, and moral questions that would all be positioned less than the aegis of what Derrida as soon as known as "philosophical nationalities and nationalism." the opposite 3 texts incorporated listed below are lengthy interviews/conversations among Derrida and his critical interlocutors in Strasbourg, Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. those interviews are major either for the topics they specialise in (language, politics, friendship, dying, existence after demise, and so forth) and for what they display approximately Derrida's relationships to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe. full of sharp insights into one another's paintings and peppered with own anecdotes and humor, they undergo witness to the decades-long highbrow friendships of those 3 vital modern thinkers. This assortment therefore stands as a reminder of and testimony to Derrida's courting to Strasbourg and to the 2 thinkers so much heavily linked to that city"
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I recognized in what Blanchot calls the instant of my death this experience of immortality. I would be interested today not to recount this but to formulate it. 18520$ $CH2 12-20-13 09:11:50 PS PAGE 27 28 Discussion Between Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy JD: Just a word, Jean-Luc, to complicate a bit what I said about immortality. It is true that, in the Spinozistic sense, I never feel immortal. That being said, in the sense in which Freud says that no one believes in his or her own death, that even when one is obsessed with being followed at every instant by mortality, there is something here that I cannot believe.
Allow me first of all to say straightaway and straightforwardly: I am very happy, truly, that the College is twenty years old and that I’ve been given the opportunity, the chance, to take part in the festivities and in the celebration of this event, and, more modestly, in reflections upon what came to pass, as it is put in the title chosen by Jean-Luc Nancy, and in the projections, hopes, and resolutions that this anniversary elicits for the future. The College ‘‘Twenty Years After,’’ therefore, though I shall resist the temptation to recount its history, intrigue, or drama against the backdrop of The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne, which I’ve just finished rereading, with great enthusiasm as a great book and, among other things, a great history lesson and lesson in political philosophy regarding the relationship between civil society and the sovereignty of the state, the secret and public space, and so on.
18520$ $CH2 12-23-13 07:27:09 PS PAGE 29 30 Discussion Between Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy also respond like the human can. I contest the certainty that the human can respond without reacting, or that the human’s response is a pure response without reaction. There is some reaction in every response . . And so, you see, I find that the concept no longer holds, no longer holds up . 4 ................. 18520$ $CH2 12-20-13 09:11:52 PS PAGE 30 chapter three Opening (2003) JACQUES DERRIDA: Since I didn’t know whether I would be able to be with you here today, and especially whether I would be able to deliver a real talk, I decided, with Franc¸ois Noudelmann, whom I would like to thank for his generosity in granting me complete freedom, to leave things up in the air until the last minute and to provide no title for what should be on my part a simple show of solidarity and symbolic friendship for a College whose existence has been dear to my heart since its birth some twenty years ago.
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