Author: Kas Saghafi

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

ISBN: 9780823231621

Category: Philosophy

Page: 201

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How does Derrida write of and on the other? Apparitions examines exemplary instances of the relation to the otherGthe relation of Moses to God, DerridaGs friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, DerridaGs relation to a recently departed actress caught on videoGto demonstrate how Derrida forces us to reconceive who or what the other may be. For Derrida, the singularity of the other includes not only the formal or logical sense of alterity, the otherness of the human other, but also the otherness of the nonliving, the no longer living, or the not yet alive. Addressing DerridaGs readings of Husserl, Levin.