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portada For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy
Type
Physical Book
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780823256495
Edition No.
1

For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

Jacques Derrida (Author) · Fordham University Press · Paperback

For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy - Jacques Derrida

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Synopsis "For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy "

For Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships Jacques Derrida developed there over a period of some forty years. Written just months before his death, the opening essay, "The Place Name(s): Strasbourg," recounts in detail, and in very moving terms, Derrida's deep attachment to this French city on the border between France and Germany. More than just a personal narrative, however, the essay is a profound interrogation of the relationship between philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship. As such, it raises a series of philosophical, political, and ethical questions that might all be placed under the aegis of what Derrida once called "philosophical nationalities and nationalism." The other three texts included in the book are long interviews/conversations between Derrida and his two principal interlocutors in Strasbourg, Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. These interviews are significant both for the themes they focus on (language, politics, friendship, death, life after death, and so on) and for what they reveal about Derrida's relationships to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe. Filled with sharp insights into one anothers' work and peppered with personal anecdotes and humor, the interviews bear witness to the decades-long intellectual friendships of these three important contemporary thinkers. This collection thus stands as a reminder of and testimony to Derrida's unique relationship to Strasbourg and to the two thinkers most closely associated with that city.
Jacques Derrida
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Jacques Derrida nació el 15 de julio de 1930 en El Biar, Argelia, y murió el 8 de octubre de 2004 en París, Francia. Proveniente de una familia judía sefardí en el contexto del colonialismo francés, su infancia estuvo marcada por acontecimientos que influirían en su sensibilidad filosófica: entre ellos, la experiencia de ser excluido de su liceo en 1942 debido a decretos antijudíos del régimen de Vichy. Posteriormente se trasladó a París para formarse en filosofía, y tras ejercer la enseñanza en la Sorbona y en la École Normale Supérieure, se consolidó como uno de los más influyentes filósofos del siglo XX.

Derrida es sobretodo conocido por haber desarrollado la filosofía de la deconstrucción, un método crítico que analiza cómo los textos, discursos o sistemas de pensamiento contienen oposiciones jerárquicas implícitas (como presencia/ausencia, palabra/escritura, naturaleza/cultura) y muestra cómo esas oposiciones pueden desplazarse o derrumbarse. Su trabajo influyó profundamente en áreas como filosofía, teoría literaria, lingüística, derecho, arquitectura y estudios culturales, sirviendo para cuestionar los fundamentos de la metafísica occidental.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967) y Margins of Philosophy (1972). A lo largo de su vida académica, abordó temas como la escritura, la diferencia, la presencia, la identidad, la justicia, la memoria y la alteridad. Su estilo, complejo y frecuentemente polémico, generó tanto adhesiones como críticas intensas. Derrida deja un legado que sigue vivo en múltiples disciplinas, movilizando el pensamiento en torno a la apertura, el otro y el procedimiento crítico.
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