For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

Jacques Derrida

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

For Strasbourg

Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

Jacques Derrida
Edited by: Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256525

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For Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews by French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships he developed there over a forty year period. It is a profound interrogation of the relationship between philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship.

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Derrida Jacques :

The late Jacques Derrida was the single most influential voice in European philosophy of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His Athens, Still Remains, The Animal That Therefore I Am, Sovereignties in Question, and Deconstruction in a Nutshell have been published by Fordham University Press.Brault Pascale-Anne :

Pascale-Anne Brault is Professor of French at DePaul University. She is the co-translator of several works of Jacques Derrida’s, most recently For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy (Fordham).Naas Michael :

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).

Reviews

Derrida did not plan to publish For Strasbourg, but it is an illuminating addition to his legacy,

—François Raffoul:
This volume gathers some of Derrida’s last texts, from 2002 to 2004, as he was engaged in fascinating discussions with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe about questions of sovereignty, event, responsibility, friendship, hospitality, singularity, community, the people, the human and animality, and his own relation to Heidegger and to the “Strasbourg school.” More poignantly, Derrida develops extraordinary meditations on death, on his own death, on dying alone or together, on survival and disappearance, on eternity, immortality and finitude, returning to the notions of trace, spectrality, and mourning. This is a moving and extraordinarily rich volume, which reveals Derrida’s final philosophical reflections.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Translators’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. The Place Name(s)—Strasbourg (2004) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Discussion Between Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy (2004) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Opening (2003) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. Responsibility—Of the Sense to Come (2002) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: Jacques Derrida; Jean-Luc Nancy; Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe; philosophy; literature; friendship; Strasbourg; politics

eBook

Published: April 1, 2014
ISBN: 9780823256525