Jacques Derrida - Videos
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The importance of the possibility of the unconscious (without needing to name it as such) in the notion of the 'betise' (stupidity). This is a short exerpt of a discussion of 'stupidity' in Gilles Deleuze's thought which promises to lead through Lacan, Freud and Flaubert.
Jacques Derrida speaking about Forgiveness in his Paris seminar "A Critique of Psychoanalysis", a reading focusing on texts from Gilles Deleuze. Public open video lecture with students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, France, 2004
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In this overview of his famous notion of the 'trace,' Derrida critiques the long-standing philosophical 'authority of the question' by examining the conditions for questioning itself ... he argues that presence always presupposes 'Otherness' (a 'primary affirmation') which embodies a 'return'...to a 'different temporality older than the past and beyond the future' - Derrida seeks a 'rapport' with this Otherness that allows for any conventional understanding of presence or the present ...
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Jacques Derrida discussing "On Forgiveness", the notion of forgiveness in international relations, which is not pure forgiveness for Derrida. Do we forgive someone or do we forgive something?
Derrida discusses the notions of Spectre, Phantom and Ghost as they are employed in his 'Spectres of Marx' in an interview with Enrico Ghezzi. He makes a distinction on the level of visibility and relates this to notion of 'event'.
TV feature on Derrida, credited with launching the Deconstructionist movement. Derrida begins with a frank discussion on the ethical problems of Deconstruction, especially in relation to human rights. Derrida points out that Deconstruction is mainly an affirmation—and it goes further and changes the nature of the subject—and is neither "reconstruction" nor "destruction."
We follow Derrida around his home, office, in the classroom and on his travels as he speaks of the suffering, the challenges and the questions that have conditioned his thought since his childhood in Algeria.
The film is woven around readings from Derrida's book Circumfession, evoking a number of seemingly disparate themes including hospitality, religion, sexuality and the place of the subject in philosophy FR with EN subtitles.
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Ghost Dance is a complex examination of ideas about ghosts, memory and the past seen across the adventures of two women (Pascale Ogier and Leonie Mellinger) in Paris and in London. The film's intellectual centre is French theorist Jacques Derrida whose ideas about ghosts, being memories of a past that was never present, underline much of what happens on screen. French and English with German subtitles
Jacques Derrida appearing in the film Ghost Dance (1983) by director Ken McMullen, playing himself and speaking about the science of Ghosts. French with English subtitles