The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning

Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century''s three key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Des...