Politics of Mourning: In Memory of Jacques Derrida 20 Years After His Death

In Paul Celan's poem "Glühende Wölbung" (Great Incandescent Vault), Jacques Derrida found a line that permeates his entire oeuvre: "the world has gone, I have to carry you." Deconstruction has been, above all, a work of mourning and inheritance, where his texts survive as a legacy that can only be preserved by being "faithfully unfaithful," taking his words as a lever for one's own thinking. This tribute to Derrida, on the 20th anniversary of his death, reflects on the unending mourning he proposes, addressing political and ethical questions of the present.

The event included presentations by Juan Evaristo Valls Boix with "Affirming without ceasing. Jacques Derrida and the force of the negative" and Ana Carrasco-Conde with "Play the grief: a philosophical analysis of György Ligeti's Requiem".

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