Jacques Derrida, The Work of Mourning

Sorcha Fogarty (University College Cork)
Download PDF Add to Bookshelf Report an Error

Despite his reputation as a philosopher of language and textuality, Jacques Derrida's work has always been intensely concerned with the phenomenological questions of the Self and its relation to the Other. This concern is fully demonstrated in

The Work of Mourning

. Essentially a collection of fifteen texts, seven of which have not been previously published, the texts span almost two decades, from 1981-2000. Edited and introduced by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, they explain how

The Work of Mourning

was formulated from a conference held in 1996, at DePaul University, on the themes of mourning and politics in the work of Jacques Derrida. These collected texts recall elements of Derrida's other work on mourning:

Specters of Marx, Politics of Friendship, The Gift of Death,

2706 words

Citation: Fogarty, Sorcha. "The Work of Mourning". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 August 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16509, accessed 19 March 2024.]

16509 The Work of Mourning 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here

Leave Feedback

The Literary Encyclopedia is a living community of scholars. We welcome comments which will help us improve.