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The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover)
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The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover)
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At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the
most influential and controversial thinker in contemporary
philosophy. But how does one respond to the death of 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? "The Impossible Mourning of Jacques
Derrida" was written in the first two months after Derrida's death.
In this original and engaging response, 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. In exploring the gap that the death of Derrida has left open,
Gaston traces the gaps (ecarts), and the history of the gap, in
Derrida's work. He argues that the inescapable gaps that cannot be
bridged play a central role in Derrida's thought and in our
response to his death. In tracing the ecarts in Derrida's work,
Gaston also takes in Plato, Hegel, Descartes, Kant, Husserl,
Heidegger, Levinas and Lyotard. The book explores how, after the
death of Derrida, we think of him in a history of philosophy and
asserts the importance not only of literature, but also of history
in Derrida's thought. 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.
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