By Geoffrey Bennington
ISBN-10: 0748639853
ISBN-13: 9780748639854
Because the dying of Jacques Derrida in 2004, Geoffrey Bennington, an in depth good friend and collaborator, has elucidated the philosopher's advanced inspiration, in particular his power interrogation of lifestyles and dying, mourning and melancholia, and what Derrida often referred to as "half-mourning." Bennington relates this "ethical" interruption of mourning to the chronic yet nonetheless ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it's argued right here, is definitive of deconstruction. He strikes in the course of the complete of Derrida's wealthy and sundry corpus.
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Soon the inconvenience of this concourse of all in everything forces the Sovereign People to charge some of its members with the execution of its wishes. After having fulfilled their charge and reported on it, these Officers return to the common equality. Soon these charges become frequent, and eventually permanent. Insensibly a body is formed that acts always. A body that acts always cannot report on every act: it only reports on the principal ones; soon it gets to the point of reporting on none.
The life that is devoted to learning how to live by learning how to die (or by having already learned how to die) is always plenty long enough, says Seneca (and we might be tempted to say that it is both interminable and deathly, however short): but once we register the irreducible trace of reading in that life, then it will again have been too short, always too short, but only that essential brevity gives it whatever length it will have had. And perhaps, in the end, that’s not exactly nothing, that’s life, that’s survival, c’est mon histoire.
What we usually call ‘nature’ (but that in the tradition has other names too, such as ‘civil war’ in Hobbes). Institutions by definition mark a break with nature, yet insofar as their founding moment can never be fully integrated and institutionalised, but remains as a kind of traumatic memory of their non-legal foundation, they remain haunted by a nature they have never quite left behind (I want to say – I’m not sure if Derrida would agree – that that’s just what nature is),18 and which can always re-emerge to destroy them (this is a constant theme in Rousseau’s political thought, for example, where the very fragile cohesion of the State is always on the verge of breaking and dispersing back into nature).
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