Discussion Between Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy (2004)

This chapter is the transcription of a discussion between Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe from June 2004 during Derrida's visit—his final visit—to Strasbourg. The discussion begins with questions concerning Heidegger and his politics before turning to more general questions about community and generation, and, most poignantly, about death, finitude, mourning, survival, and immortality. We thus hear Derrida, four months before his death, conversing with Strasbourg's two most famous philosophers about the all-too-relevant and pressing questions of legacy, the archive, the afterlife, and immortality.