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Article: Derrida's remains: Derrida's memorials or works of mourning for others function doubly. They put the dead friend in his or her place. They also say the best that can be said for the dead and work to ensure their survival.(Jacques Derrida)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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- September 1, 2006
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[...] etre mort, avant de vouloir dire tout autre chose, signifie, pour
moi, etre livre, dans ce qui reste de moi, comme dans tous mes restes,
etre expose ou livre sans aucune defense possible, une fois totalement
desarme, a l'autre, aux autres.
--Jacques Derrida, "La bete et le souverain,"
In a remarkable passage I have cited in part as my epigraph, Derrida gives, in the fifth seminar of his last seminars, "La bete et le souverain (deuxieme annee)," one more definition of l'autre, the other. The concept of the other plays a crucial role in Derrida's later writings on ethics, responsibility, politics, friendship, decision, religion, sacrifice, death, and other ...