Thursday, July 23, 2015

late Derida quote


Returned to Derrida’s last interview, carried out a few weeks before his death, in which he marked his “preoccupation” with the question of “Who is going to inherit, and how? […] When it comes to thought, the question of survival has taken on absolutely unforeseeable forms.” Derrida remained committed to being ‘on the left’ which meant (as he puts it in a letter to Granel in 1971) that the risk of giving an “impression of apoliticism, or rather 'apraxia’”, was tied to the strategic requirement to avoid appearing to take a reactionary position in criticizing current orthodoxies on Marx: “I’ll never fall into anti-communism, so I’m shutting my mouth.”

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