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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