Derrida: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Glendinning
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By Simon Glendinning In 1994 Jacques Derrida participated in a seminar in Capri under the title 'Religion'. Derrida himself thought 'religion' might be a good word, perhaps the best word for thinking about our time, our 'today'. It belongs, Derrida suggested, to the 'absolute anachrony' of our time. Religion? Isn't it that old thing that we moderns had thought had gone away, the thing that really does not belong in our time? And yet, so it seems, it is still alive and well.
Posted on June 13, 2014
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By Simon Glendinning Two months before his death in October 2004, Jacques Derrida gave an interview to the French newspaper Le Monde which turned out to be his last. Although he refused to treat it as an occasion in which to give what he called 'a health bulletin,' he acknowledged that he was seriously ill, and the discussion is overshadowed by that fact: there is a strong sense of someone taking stock, someone taking the chance to give a final word.
Posted on April 27, 2012
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