There is no World without End (Salut): Derrida's Phenomenology of the Extra-Mundane

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• This is the title of one of Derrida's last published works. Jacques Derrida, Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde, Paris: Galilée 2003. It appeared earlier as The Work of Mourning, eds. and trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001).
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• Jacques Derrida, Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan, tran. Thomas Dutoit and Outi Pasanen, (New York: Fordham U.P. 2005)
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• See Hegel, “Towards a Concrete Metaphysics“, Hegel: The Essential Writings, trans. Frederck G. Wiess, (New York: Harper, 1974), p.163.
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• Jacques Derrida, “Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility,” in: Questioning Ethics, eds. Richard Kearney and Mark Dooley, (London: Routledge 2002), 81.
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• Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, trans. Dorian Cairns, (Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1973), 84.
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• Derrida, The Problem of Genesis in Husserl's Philosophy, trans. Marion Hobson, University of Chicago Press: Chicago 2003.) 69.
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• See Derrida, The Problem of Genesis…, 84.
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• Derrida, Introduction to Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry, trans. J.P. Levey Jr. (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press 1989), 173.
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• See Husserl, Origins of Geometry, trans. David Carr, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1989), 174.
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• See Derrida, Introduction to…Origins of Geometry, 105.
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• Derrida, The Problem of Genesis…, 105.
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• Derrida, Introduction to…Origins of Geometry, 88.
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• See Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1962), 246.
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• Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret, trans. Giacomo Donis, (Cambridge: Polity 2001) 64.
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• Derrida, Sovereignties in Question…, 141. I have dealt with this phrase elsewhere in terms of the relationship between Derrida's concept of world and ethics. See Patrick O'Connor, “Derrida's Worldly Responsibility: An Opening between Faith and the Sacred”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 2, June 2007.
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• Derrida, Spectres of Marx, 237f n.6.
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• The accord of life in Derrida and his relation to Husserl was first analyzed most fully by Lawlor, op. cit. 174–179 and 188–195. Joanna Hodge offers a compelling account of how this is prefigured in Husserl as the concept of transcendental life but given added inflection by Derrida as early as Voice and Phenomena. For Hodge the transcendental role of the living present is equivocal with the paradoxical condition of death in life. As Hodge notes of Derrida, the living self-presence of the voice, or of the ‘live’ voice, is at once absolutely alive and absolutely dead; see Joanna Hodge, “Husserl, Freud, A Suivre: Derrida on Time”, in: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 36, No. 2, May 2005, 189f; see also Derrida La Voix et le phénomène, (3rd ed. Paris: PUF 2005) 14f.
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• Derrida, Sovereignties in Question, 140.
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• For the context of this quote and Millers analysis of it see J.H. Miller, “Don't Count me in: Derrida's Refraining”, in: Textual Practice, 21:2, June 2007, 285.
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• See Derrida, Sovereignties in Question, 162: “Before being me I carry the other”. On the ethical level this revolves around the question of hospitality. With the auto-epoché and the suspension of the world I cannot but welcome the end of the world, but as with all of Derrida's welcomes it is internally contradicted and thus double bound with a separation, departure and leave taking.
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• For a good characterisation of this distinction see Rodolphe Gasché, Inventions of Difference (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U.P. 1994) 148. Also for an excellent account of the Hegelian lineage of Derrida's adoption of ‘negative infinity’ and its transformation into ‘positive finitude’, see Martin Hägglund, “The Necessity of Discrimination: Disjoining Derrida and Lévinas”, in: Diacritics, Vol:34, no.1, Spring 2004, 54–56.
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• Aristotle, ‘Physics’, The Basic Works of Aristotle, ed. Richard Mckeon, trans. W.D. Ross, (London, Modern Library 2001) 1029a10.
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• See Derrida, On Touching—Jean Luc Nancy, trans. Christine Irizarry, (California: Stanford U.P. 2005), 46–49.
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• This caution derives from the possibility of Nancy's reading lapsing into a Heideggerian thought of a world which attempts to become the world. For a summary of Derrida's hesitancy, see Derrida, On Touching, 54.
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• Ibid., 47.
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