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Athens, Still Remains - The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme (Paperback)
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Athens, Still Remains - The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme (Paperback)
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Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of
photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer
Jean-Francois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always
has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several unexpected
and mutually illuminating directions. First published in French and
Greek in 1996, Athens, Still Remains is Derrida's most sustained
analysis of the photographic medium in relationship to the history
of philosophy and his most personal reflection on that medium. At
once photographic analysis, philosophical essay, and
autobiographical narrative, Athens, Still Remains presents an
original theory of photography and throws a fascinating light on
Derrida's life and work. The book begins with a sort of verbal
snapshot or aphorism that haunts the entire book: "we owe ourselves
to death." Reading this phrase through Bonhomme's photographs of
both the ruins of ancient Athens and contemporary scenes of a
still-living Athens that is also on its way to ruin and death,
Derrida interrogates a philosophical tradition that runs from
Socrates to Heidegger in which the human-and especially the
philosopher-is thought to owe himself to death, to a certain
thought of death or comportment with regard to death. Combining
philosophical speculations on mourning and death, event and
repetition, and time and difference with incisive commentary on
Bonhomme's photographs and a narrative of Derrida's 1995 trip to
Greece, Athens, Still Remains is one of Derrida's most accessible,
personal, and moving works without being, for all that, any less
philosophical. As Derrida reminds us, the word photography-an
eminently Greek word-means "the writing of light," and it brings
together today into a single frame contemporary questions about the
work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction and much older
questions about the relationship between light, revelation, and
truth-in other words, an entire philosophical tradition that first
came to light in the shadow of the Acropolis.
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