Ten years ago, on October 9, 2004, the philosopher Jacques Derrida passed away. To mark this occasion and inquire into the legacy of Derrida’s thought today, LARB’s philosophy/critical theory genre section is featuring five short texts by Peggy Kamuf, Gil Anidjar, Elisabeth Weber, Michael Marder, and Luce Irigaray that cover aspects of Derrida’s thought ranging from biodegradability to the Holocaust, the death penalty and drone attacks, plant-life and being human, and back.
Also featured in LARB today is Jeremy Butman’s interview with Simon Critchley about Critchley’s book The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas, which proposed the notion of an ethical turn in Derrida’s thought when it was first published in the early 1990s and was recently re-released in a third, revised edition.
— Arne De Boever, LARB philosophy/critical theory section editor
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Peggy Kamuf, “Remains to Be Seen”
Gil Anidjar, “Everything Burns: Derrida’s Holocaust”
Elisabeth Weber, “Jacques Derrida’s Urgency, Today”
Michael Marder and Luce Irigaray, “There Is No Thought Without Remembrance”
