Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-François Bonhomme
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823232069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
At once photographic analysis, philosophical essay, and autobiographical narrative, Athens, Still Remains presents an original theory of photography and throws a fascinating light on Derrida’s life and work.The book begins with a sort of verbal snapshot or aphorism that haunts the entire book: “we owe ourselves to death.” Reading this phrase through Bonhomme’s photographs of both the ruins of ancient Athens and contemporary scenes of a still-living Athens that is also on its way to ruin and death, Derrida interrogates a philosophical tradition that runs from Socrates to Heidegger in which the humanand
His Athens, Still Remains, The Animal That Therefore I Am, Sovereignties in Question, and Deconstruction in a Nutshell have been published by Fordham University Press.Pascale-Anne Brault is Professor of French at DePaul University. . His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two
For there is no too-late in the reading of Derrida’s work: it is there, ahead, waiting for us still." (Ginette Michaud Université de Montréal) . "Taking his point of departure from Bonhomme¹s wonderful photographs of Athens‹photographs that bear the traces of the history of this living anddying city, as well as of an entire network of questions that have remained at the heart of the history of philosophy ever since its earliest Greek beginnings‹Derrida offers us a moving meditation on the relations among photography, light, writing, memory, mourning, death, and survival.Presented as a series of photographic stills-in-prose, his exquisite essaynot only e