{"product_id":"for-strasbourg-conversations-of-friendship-and-philosophy-9780823256495","title":"For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Strasbourg consists of a series of essays and interviews about the city of Strasbourg and the philosophical friendships Jacques Derrida developed there over a period of some forty years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten just months before his death, the opening essay, \"The Place Name(s): Strasbourg,\" recounts in detail, and in very moving terms, Derrida's deep attachment to this French city on the border between France and Germany. More than just a personal narrative, however, the essay is a profound interrogation of the relationship between philosophy and place, philosophy and language, and philosophy and friendship. As such, it raises a series of philosophical, political, and ethical questions that might all be placed under the aegis of what Derrida once called \"philosophical nationalities and nationalism.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe other three texts included in the book are long interviews\/conversations between Derrida and his two principal interlocutors in Strasbourg, Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. These interviews are significant both for the themes they focus on (language, politics, friendship, death, life after death, and so on) and for what they reveal about Derrida's relationships to Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe. Filled with sharp insights into one anothers' work and peppered with personal anecdotes and humor, the interviews bear witness to the decades-long intellectual friendships of these three important contemporary thinkers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection thus stands as a reminder of and testimony to Derrida's unique relationship to Strasbourg and to the two thinkers most closely associated with that city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe late \u003cstrong\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/strong\u003e was the single most influential voice in European philosophy of the last quarter of the twentieth century. His \u003cem\u003eAthens, Still Remains\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Animal That Therefore I Am\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSovereignties in Question\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDeconstruction in a Nutshell\u003c\/em\u003e have been published by Fordham University Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePascale-Anne Brault \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of French at DePaul University. She is the co-translator of several works of Jacques Derrida, including \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Mourning and Learning to Live Finally\u003c\/em\u003e, and of Jean-Luc Nancy's \u003cem\u003eNoli Me Tangere: On the Raising of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e (Fordham). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Naas\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His most recent books include \u003cem\u003eTaking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDerrida from Now On\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMiracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media\u003c\/em\u003e (the last two Fordham).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328971411730,"sku":"9780823256495","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1995d54c-1c53-4aea-a06b-727aac18a325.jpg?v=1727756106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/for-strasbourg-conversations-of-friendship-and-philosophy-9780823256495","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}