Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview

by Jacques Derrida

Series: The Last Interview Series (1)

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2007-04-01 (English translation)

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A few weeks before his death, Derrida said: "I am at war with myself, it's true, you couldn't possibly know to what extenta I know that it is what keeps me alive, and makes me ask precisely "How does one learn to live?"' With death looming, Jacques Derrida, one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century known as the father of "deconstruction" sat down with Le Monde journalist Jean Birnbaum. They revisited his life's work and his impending death in a lyrical and moving final interview. In this meditation upon life, love and politics, Derrida reveals what has motivated his writing. He speaks openly about the impact of being Jewish and an outsider in French society.… (more)