Derrida: Survival as Heritage

Abstract

One has never experienced the initial words of “The Ends of Man” spoken so seriously as at the recent colloquium held in Rio de Janeiro, between August 16-18, 2004. The international colloquium “Towards a Reflection on Deconstruction: Issues of Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics” opened with a lecture by Jacques Derrida entitled “Forgiveness, Truth, Reconciliation: What Gender?” It seems to echo incessantly the sentence of the philosopher who claimed in his own Margins of Philosophy: “every and any philosophical colloquium necessarily has a political sense.”