Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy

✍ Scribed by Jacques Derrida

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 927 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7411
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00141640

✦ Synopsis

From the question which introduces this interview one might pick out two phrases: firstly, "Who comes after the subject?" the "who" already signaling, perhaps, towards a grammar which would no longer be subjected to the subject: and secondly, "a prevalent discourse of a recent epoch concludes with its [the subject's] simple liquidation" (quoted from the letter of invitation). Now should we not take an initial precaution with regard to the doxa, which in a certain way dictates the very formulation of the question? This precaution would not be a critique. It is no doubt necessary to refer