by Jacques Derrida (Author)

A tribute to one of the fathers of deconstruction as well as an extended essay on memory, death, and friendship.

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Derrida offers significant insights into de Man's understanding of Heidegger, Holderlin, Hegel, Austin, and Rouseau. A warm, personal, and at times touching account of the de Man/Derrida intellectual friendship and the existential experience of a friend's death, this work shows a very human side to a thinker whose humanity has been questioned by the critics.