The end of the world and other teachable moments :
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[Book]
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Jacques Derrida's final seminar /
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael Naas
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (231 pages)
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Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and index
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida's final seminar, 'The Beast and the Sovereign' (2001-3), as the explicit themes of the seminar namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world. The book concludes this final seminar is an absolutely unique work in Derrida's corpus, one that both speaks of death as the end of the world and itself now testifies to that end just one, though hardly the least, of its many teachable moments