The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret (Religion and Postmodernism) by Jacques Derrida (PDF)

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The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida’s most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by sacrifice, murder, execution, or suicide. Derrida analyzes Czech philosopher Jan Patocka’s Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History and develops and compares his ideas to the works of Heidegger, Lévinas, and Kierkegaard. One of Derrida’s major works, The Gift of Death resonates with much of his earlier writing, and this highly anticipated second edition is greatly enhanced by David Wills’s updated translation. This new edition also features the first-ever English translation of Derrida’s Literature in Secret. In it, Derrida continues his discussion of the sacrifice of Isaac, which leads to bracing meditations on secrecy, forgiveness, literature, and democracy. He also offers a reading of Kafka’s Letter to His Father and uses the story of the flood in Genesis as an embarkation point for a consideration of divine sovereignty. “An important contribution to the critical study of ethics that commends itself to philosophers, social scientists, scholars of religion . . . [and those] made curious by the controversy that so often attends Derrida.”—Booklist, on the first edition

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⭐I’ve been an eager reader of Derrida since encountering Plato’s Pharmacy in grad school. This second edition of Donner la Mort includes the essay Literature in Secret. Derrida is a notoriously difficult read, but rewarding; it may help to realize that he does not lay out a theory of philosophy, but rather performs philosophy. I found his exploration of the Abraham and Isaac story especially notable. In reading him, I always think of the carpenter’s maxim: “measure twice, cut once.”

⭐Written just shortly before his death, Derrida has a kind word or two about god and says that one of his many gifts is taking us out of this vale of tears of his and into his bosom – not for the Woody Allens of this world nor for Madonna, it invites contemplation on what “the life everlasting” might be: Plautus said it best: ‘he whom the gods love, dies young’.

⭐Derrida impresses again with a magnificent display of his analysis on language, the concept of writing, and the deconstruction in the field of phenomenology.

⭐It’s a textbook, what do you say?

⭐Great!

⭐Radical thought!

⭐I don’t knw how he did it, but Derrida put together an entire book where each and every sentence has the appearance and structure of a sentence, while meaning absolutely nothing at all, and I have no idea how he did it. There is literally not a single sentence in this book that means anything at all.It’s often sad of Derrida that he purposefully obscures his ideas with useless fluff to make it seem much more complicated than it actually is, but enable to do this he would have to have ideas with which to surround in fluff and jargon. Derrida has no such ideas- he has absolutely nothing to say at all, but he wants to pretend as if he does, so he put together a book which is nothing but fluff and jargon with no ideas behind them.Seriously- don’t buy this book, and anyone who tells you that Derridfa is a genius who is “like, superr deep, bro,” they’re just pretending- they know that there is absolutely nothing to this sorry excuse for a random word generator. There is absolutely no substance to thius guy. Don’t wastye your money on worthless poser-brand philosophy. I want my money back.Friedrich Nietzsche once said that “Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.” And I can think of no better example of this than Derrida- Derrida is nothing but a fog generator, who spews out such a thick fog that no one can see that it isn’t covering up anything.

⭐Worth the effort to read it

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