THE WORK OF MOURNING Jacques DERRIDAot tNBe’ Jacques Derrida i director of studies at the Beole des Hautes Flos en Sciences Sociales, Pari, and professor of humanities atthe University of California, Irvine. He isthe author of many books, including The Gift of Death and Archive Fever, both published by the University of Chicago Press: Pasale-Anne Brault is associate professor of French at DePaul University Michael Naas i professor of philosophy at DePaul Universit). “Together they have translated several works by Derek in ling Memoirs ofthe Blind, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Adiew y “The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 ‘The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2001 by The University of Chicago 3 ‘Al rights reserved. Published 200% Printed in the United States of America cuapreR 1 English language only. 4 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 123.45 ISBN o-226-14316-3 (oth) . Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Derrida, Jacques 6 “The work of mourning/ Jacques Derrida edited by Paseale- ‘Anne Brault and Michael Naas. ‘em, 7 Includes bibliographical references. EM SBN 0-226-14316-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1 Daven Jacques Friend and ait 8 sae Biography. 4 Ealoges. 1 Brault Fee aL Naan Micha ML Tie weal ie ° tort 2430 S23 00-012995 @The paper used in this mae meets the minimum He "Ameriean National Standard for Infor- requirements of th sen Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39-48-1992: ; CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Eprrors' INTRopUCTION ‘To Reckon with the Dead: Jacques Derrida’s Politics of Mourning ROLAND BARTHES (1915-80) ‘The Deaths of Roland Barthes PAUL DE MAN (1919-83) In Memoriam: Of the Soul Micte1. FOUCAULT (1926-84) “To Do Justice to Freud” Max LOREAU (1928-90) Letter to Francine Loreau JEAN-MARIE BENOIST (1942-90) ‘The Taste of Tears Louts ALTHUSSER (1918-90) ‘Text Read at Louis Althusser's Funeral EDMOND JABES (1912-91) Letter to Didier Caen JosePH N. Rivet, (1931-91) Addemi-mot Micue SERVIERE (1941-91) As If There Werean Arcof the Signature Lours Manin (1931-92) By Force of Mourning ‘The biographical sketches are by Kat Saghaf 3 7 105 19 ns 33 593 4 SARAH KOFMAN (1934-94) GILLES DELEUZE (1925-95) I'm Going to Have to Wander All Alone EMMANUEL LEVINAS (1906-95) Adieu JEAN-FRANGOIS LYOTARD (1924-98) All-Out Friendship Lyotard and Us ep BY Kas SAGHAFT BIBLIOGRAPHIES, COM! 165 189 197 48 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS as impetus for this book was a conference held on October 7, 1996, at DePaul University on the themes of mourning and politics in the work of Jacques Derrida. We offer our heartfelt thanks to David Krell, who or- ganized the conference and provided us with a forum for discussing this topic with Jacques Derrida, and to Peg Birmingham, who first suggested the idea of collect- ig these texts into a single volume. Their support and collegiality have been invaluable in the preparation of this work. Of the fiftcen translations gathered here, eight have been previously published. We are grateful to Kevin Newmark (and Columbia University Press), Samuel Weber (and the Louisiana State University Press), and Leonard Lawlor (and Philosophy Today) for allowing us to republish dicir translations of Derrida’s texts on de Man, Riddel, and Deleuze. Our thanks also to Boris Belay for making his translation of “Lyotard and Us" available to us for this volume, and to Stanford Univer- sity Press, Critical Inguiry, and Northwestern Univer- sity Press for permission to reprint our own previously published translations of the texts on Foucault, Kofman,