The Work of Mourning
by Jacques Derrida
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Author: Jacques DerridaEditor: Pascale-Anne Brault
Translator: Pascale-Anne Brault
Editor: Michael Naas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-09-15
ISBN: 0226142817
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Book Review: Paying his respect
Summary: 3 Stars
This volume is a compendium of obituaries by Jacques Derrida on several key figures of continental philosophy who have since passed in recent years. The book, gathered as a whole, essentially marks the end of an important era in the history of Western philosophy, it was the era of existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxist theory, and deconstruction.
Derrida writes elegant and respectful essays about literary theorist Roland Barthes, Paul DeMan, philosopher Michel Foucault, Max Loreau, Jean-Marie Benoist, Marxist theorist Louis Althusser, Edmond Jabes, Joseph Riddel, Michel Serviere, Louis Marin, feminist Sarah Kofman, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Although this text is far from a major work of philosophy on behalf of Derrida, I am positive it will be an important resource for future students, and an elegant work of preservation for a by-gone era.
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