Jacques Derrida 1930-2004
En av de mest inflytelserika filosoferna under 1900- och 2000-talen, Jacques Derrida, har avlidit, 74 år gammal, skriver Le Monde.
Citat från Donner la mort (The Gift of Death, övers. David Wills):
"Death is very much that which nobody else can undergo or confront in my place. My irreplaceability is therefore conferred, delivered, 'given', one can say, by death. It is the same gift, the same source, one could say the same goodness and the same law. It is from the site of death as the place of my irreplaceability, that is, of my singularity, that I feel called to responsibility. In this sense only a mortal can be responsible."
Update: jag hörde Derrida tala för ca 3-4 år sedan, i Uppsala, där han höll en öppen föreläsning om...ja, vad? Jag minns inte. (Nicholas, minns du?) Han läste ett manuskript, lika prövande och vandrande som vilken Derrida-text som helst.
Relaterat:
- Rätt heltäckande bibliografi över Derridas verk, från 1962 till 2004.
- För Brian Leiter, en akademisk filsof, är det viktigare att man läser korrekt än gör filosofi:
"Like the Straussians, Derrida and his followers tend to be willfully bad readers of texts. Fortunately, their influence has already faded from the scene in both North America and Europe."
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Från en AFP-artikel som syndikerats här och där, bland andra här:
"Jonas Thente, literary critic for Sweden's largest daily Dagens Nyheter, said he was putting his money on Algerian novelist, poet and filmmaker Assia Djebar, whose books deal with post-colonial identity issues.
"French philosopher-writer Jacques Derrida was also seen as a possible winner of the 10-million-kronor (1.37-million-dollar, 1.10-million-euro) prize.
"'He is one of the biggest names in post-structuralism,' Thente said. 'And Academy secretary Horace Engdahl and member Katarina Frostenson are known to be big fans of his.'"
Postad av: Peter Lindberg | oktober 10, 2004 7:38 FM