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| | Amazon.ca: The Work of Mourning: Books: Jacques Derrida,Pascale-Anne Brault,Michael Naas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The internationally renowned French thinker Jacques Derrida-the New York Times once exaggeratedly called him "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher"-is, as his readers know, interested not only in the traditional philosophical topics of life, death, and all the rest, but he's also and especially interested in the problems of speaking and writing about those subjects. |
 | | Derrida shares his sorrow, and we experience "the reader's grief." In this instance, it is grief I'm grateful for because, among other things, it is such a powerful reminder of what we might live for. |
 | | A combination elegy, introductory text and act of appropriation, Jacques Derrida's The Work of Mourning finds the French ber-philosophe writing about the lives and works of departed contemporaries Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Paul De Man and 10 others in biographically based chapters. |
| www.amazon.ca /Work-Mourning-Jacques-Derrida/dp/0226143163 (1564 words) |
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