The death of the people
Death, Derrida suggests in Politics of Friendship, is a question of numbers. Yet, death is also always “mine,” which is why Heidegger can say that “the dying of Others is not something which we experience in a genuine sense; at most we are always just ‘there alongside’.” Between my death an...
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Summary: | Death, Derrida suggests in Politics of Friendship, is a question of numbers.
Yet, death is also always “mine,” which is why Heidegger can say that “the
dying of Others is not something which we experience in a genuine sense; at
most we are always just ‘there alongside’.” Between my death and the death
of everyone, between the one and the infinitely many, I have found myself
wondering about a different measure, a more limited and distinct grammatical
- or arithmetic - register, in which is raised the question of our death.
The death, not of humanity, nor quite the death of all others, but the death
of the people, the death of we who count and count for and on each other (or
imagine we do). This is where Derrida’s calculability or incalculability of
death intervenes at its most opaque, it seems to me. Somewhere between the
one and the very many, the universal many of humanity, between what
Heidegger calls “mineness” (which, when it comes to death, remains a
possibility) and the death of (all) others, there would be found the death
of we, the people. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |