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Article: Review of Sean Gaston, The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida.
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- Bible and Critical Theory
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- October 1, 2007
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REVIEW OF SEAN GASTON, THE IMPOSSIBLE MOURNING OF JACQUES DERRIDA (LONDON/NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2006)
This is Gaston's personal and philosophical diary of his mourning in the two months following the death and burial of Jacques Derrida. He begins on 12 October 2004, the day of Derrida's funeral, and concludes on 17 December 2004. He revised the account in May-July 2005. The specific dating accords with Derrida's frequent ruminations on what is entailed in writing by the date. Gaston's mourning takes the form of extended readings and rereadings of much of Derrida's writings from 1959 to his final works. His introductory paragraph, written in July 2005, succinctly ...