In this magisterial late essay by Derrida, what the reader soon discovers is in part a conversation with his former student, as well as an opening for a new reflection on our current ecological and political crises that are all the more urgent today where the possibility of giving ourselves death as a human race and the end of the world is now, within an era of climate change, more real than ever.
As part of UnivocalтАЩs Pharmakon series, this essay, itself published in advance, becomes a brief but powerful light pointing toward UnivocalтАЩs forthcoming publication of the translation of Serge MargelтАЩs Le Tombeau du Dieu Artisan. тАЬOnce again the Timaeus, of course, but a different Timaeus, a new Demiurge, I promise.тАЭ
Jacques Derrida (1930тАУ2004) was a French philosopher best known for developing the philosophical notion of deconstruction.┬а
Philippe Lynes holds a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary humanities from Concordia University and is coeditor of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy.