Whatever the outcome of these discussions, Derrida was often left in the unappealing position of having an opportunity for the last word in too many, as he outlived many of his peers. Death and mourning are foundational to the analysis which lead Derrida to his understanding of inheritance, interpretation, and responsibility. Beginning with "The Deaths of Roland Barthes" in 1981, Derrida produced a series of texts on mourning and memory occasioned by the loss of his friends and colleagues, many of them new engagements with their work. ''Memoires for Paul de Man'', a book-length lecture series presented first at Yale and then at Irvine as Derrida's Wellek Lecture, followed in 1986, with a revision in 1989 that included "Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul de Man's War". Ultimately fourteen essays were collected into ''The Work of Mourning'', which was expanded in the French edition ''Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde'' (literally, ''The end of the world, unique each time'') to include essays dedicated to [[Gérard Granel]] and Maurice Blanchot...
==Online texts==
===Essays, excerpts===
*[http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/derrida.htm Excerpt from "Of Grammatology"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/arch.html Excerpt from "Archive Fever"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/hegel.html "Speech and writing according to Hegel"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/spectres.html Excerpt from "Spectres of Marx"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/diff.html Excerpt from the famous speech "Différance"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/letter.html "Letter to a Japanese Friend"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/sign-play.html "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/sec.html Excerpt from "Signature, Event, Context"]
===Interviews===
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/olivier.html ''Derrida: Artaud et ses doubles.'' Rencontre avec Jean-Michel Olivier]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/so.html "Excuse me, but I never said exactly so"]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/ami.html Interview, in French, with Robert Maggiori]
*[http://www.csun.edu/coms/grad/jd.nik.html Interview with Nikhil Padgaonkar] on Love
*[http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203851.pdf Interview with Michael Ben-Naftali, Shoah Resource Center] on Holocaust and Forgiveness
==Bibliography==
The most complete bibliography available online can be found [http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/jdind.html at this site]. The compilation, copyrighted by Peter Krapp, is still in progress, but all major works are listed, sorted [http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/jdalf.html by title] or [http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/jdyr.html by year of publication].
===Selected works by Derrida ===
(see [[Jacques Derrida Bibliography]])
* ''“Speech and Phenomena” and other essays on Husserl’s Theory of Signs'', trans. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973).
* ''Of Grammatology'', (hardcover: ISBN 0801818419, paperback: ISBN 0801818796, corrected edition: ISBN 0801858305) trans. [[Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak]] (Baltimore, MA and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976).
* ''The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and beyond'', trans. Alan Bass (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
* "Letter to a Japanese Friend," in ''Derrida and Différance'', (ISBN 0810107864) eds. [[Robert Bernasconi]] and [[David Wood]], 1988*
* ''Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International'', trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York and London: Routledge, 1994).
* ''Resistances of Psychoanalysis'', trans. Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
* ''Points...: Interviews 1974-1994'', trans. Peggy Kamuf and others, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997).
* ''Without Alibi'', trans. and ed. Peggy Kamuf (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002).
* "Nietzsche and the Machine," w/ Richard Beardsworth, in ''Negotiations,'' (ISBN 0804738920) ed. [[Elizabeth Rottenberg]], 2002*
* "Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides", w/ [[Giovanna Borradori]], in ''Philosophy in a Time of Terror,'' (ISBN 0226066649) ed. Giovanna Borradori 2003 *
* ''Writing and Difference'', trans. Alan Bass (London and New York: Routledge, 2004). (Originally published in 1967.)
* ''Rogues: Two Essays on Reason'', (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
===Works on Derrida===
* "Spirit's Spirit Spirits Spirit," Geoffrey Bennington, in ''Legislations'' (ISBN 0860916685)*
* "The Differends of Man", Avital Ronell, in ''Finitude's Score'' (ISBN 0803239114)*
* ''Interrupting Derrida'', (ISBN 0415224276) Geoffrey Bennington
* ''Later Derrida'', (ISBN 0415942691) Herman Rapaport
* ''Derrida and the Political,'' (ISBN 0415109671) Richard Beardsworth
* ''Jacques Derrida and the Humanities: a Critical Reader,'' (ISBN 0521625653) ed. Tom Cohen
* ''Philosophy and the Turn to Religion'' (ISBN 0801859956) and ''Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida'' (ISBN 0801867681), Hent de Vries
<nowiki>*</nowiki>referenced above
===Works by others referenced above===
* ''Being and Time'', Martin Heidegger
* "Only a God Can Save Us" (''Der Spiegel'' interview), in ''Philosophical and Political Writings'', Martin Heidegger, ed. Manfred Stassen
==See also==
*[[Continental philosophy]]
*[[Deconstruction]]
*[[Derrida (film)]]
*[[Logocentrism]]
*[[Post-structuralism]]
==External links==
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*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4918450564764113529&q=derrida&pl=true New York Remembers Derrida video]
*[http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_1/derrida.htm Passings: Taking Derrida Seriously]
*[http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/ ''Jacques Derrida'', Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts]
*[http://www.hydra.umn.edu/derrida/ ''Derrida: Online'']
*[http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/jacques_derrida.html ''Jacques Derrida'', Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory]
*[http://www.vusst.hr/ENCYCLOPAEDIA/derrida-education.htm ''Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education'', Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education]
*[http://jac.gsu.edu/jac/10/Articles/1.htm ''Jacques Derrida on Rhetoric and Composition: A Conversation'', JAC]
*[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/066649.html ''9/11 and Global Terrorism: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida'', excerpt from ''Philosophy in a Time of Terror — Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida'' by Giovanna Borradori]
*[http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9703/opinion/mckenna.html ''Derrida, Death, and Forgiveness'', First Things, Journal of Religion and Public Life]
*[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/Jacques%20Derrida%20-%20LAT%20page.htm ''Deconstructing Jacques Derrida'', Los Angeles Times Magazine]
*[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/stephens/Jacques%20Derrida%20-%20NYT%20-%20page.htm ''Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction'', The New York Times Magazine]
*[http://www.csun.edu/coms/grad/jd.nik.html Jacques Derrida Interview on Love]
*[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/frenchthought/derrida.htm Geoffrey Bennington: Politics and Friendship — A Discussion with Jacques Derrida]
*[http://www.indymedia.be/print.php?id=83123 For a justice to come: An interview with Jacques Derrida]
*[http://www.atelierleonhardt.de/derrida.htm Adorno Prize page]
*[http://www.lemonde.fr/web/dh/0,14-0@14-0@2-3208,39-23746506,0.html ''Décès du philosophe Jacques Derrida'' — Le Monde newspaper]
*[http://www.fluidimagination.com/2005/03/noblesse_and_ab.html An article on Derrida and Heidegger at www.fluidimagination.com]
*[http://www.humanities.uci.edu/remembering_jd/ Controversial Even After Death: Scholars sign a letter of protest over Derrida's ''New York Times'' obituary]
*[http://www.sicetnon.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=2&page_id=71 Derrida's Specters of Marx and The Recognition of Pointless Identity]
*'''[http://www.deconstructioninmusic.com Deconstruction in Music]''' by Marcel Cobussen. Interactive dissertation on deconstruction in the music of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[John Zorn]] and [[John Cage]].
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