Jacques Derrida
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The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book 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 Czech philosopher Jan Patocka's Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Lévinas,...
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The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there-"an illuminating addition to his legacy" (The Times Literary Supplement).
A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving collection of writings and interviews about his life...
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Limited Inc. (París: Galilee, 1990), fue publicado en los Estados Unidos (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1988). La historia de esta primera edición en castellano corresponde a una réplica exacta del libro que fue publicado por primera vez en los Estados Unidos. Se trata de un largo debate entre Jacques Derrida y John R. Searle, compuesto por dos ensayos que constituyen los desarrollos más explícitos y directos de Jacques Derrida sobre...
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Espectros fue el primer título que Marx pensó para su Manifiesto. Derrida lo recupera en este libro para realizar una crítica de la herencia de Marx en el mundo contemporáneo, una crítica vertida desde su particular teoría filosófica: la deconstrucción.
Jacques Derrida critica un nuevo dogmatismo, una nueva intolerancia que se ha adueñado de Europa, el dogmatismo capitalista que insiste en la muerte de Marx y del marxismo. Para Derrida es...
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¿Qué fue lo que hice al anunciar este seminario bajo el título de "La vida-la muerte", es decir, reemplazando por un guion o por un espaciado sin él o por un guion sin palabra, por un silencio marcado, la y que en general pone la muerte con la vida, yuxtapuesta la una a la otra o, más seguramente, opuesta? Lo que quizás aparece justamente como problema en lo referido a la vida la muerte es la relación de yuxtaposición o de oposición, la relación...
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The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson... Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature therefore becomes of secondary importance. Philosophy vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own meaning, it strives-against the grain...
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In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years...
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This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation,...
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Three renowned philosophers discuss the work of Martin Heidegger, and the moral quandary of engaging with a major philosopher who was also a Nazi.
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. Heidegger's involvement in Nazism has always been an unsettling stain...