Derrida's gift to eco/theo/logy: a critical tribute.

From: CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Derrida is dead. While the philosopher considered death a gift (The Gift of Death, 1995), he found it hard to accept existentially. (1) I, for one, certainly relate to Derrida's refusal of death: try as I might, I find it difficult (perhaps impossible) to accept death as a gift--except, perhaps, by ecologically interpreting it as a way of making room for the coming of other-than-human and human others. Try as I might, I find it difficult to move beyond the Christian dogma of death as the fatal consequence of Edenic sin: this dubious notion is difficult to abandon because orthodoxy ...

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