Derrida's 'The Work of Mourning' Published in French

Éditions Galilée has released 'Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde', the French translation of Jacques Derrida's 'The Work of Mourning', curated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. This collection features Derrida's tributes to various friends and intellectuals, such as Gilles Deleuze (1995), Jean-François Lyotard (1998), and Maurice Blanchot (2003), along with others like Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. The pieces are sequenced by the date of death, resembling the credits of a film. In the preface, Derrida acknowledges that this work is not solely his, having originated in English before being translated into French. The editors discuss Derrida's 'politics of mourning', referencing his works like 'Glas' and 'Specters of Marx', while he contemplates the challenges of mourning and the nature of eulogies. The book serves as both a post-script and a tribute to a generation.