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“I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.”

Quote by Jacques Derrida

Book:The Animal That Therefore I Am

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The Animal That Therefore I Am

This book delves into the philosophical and existential aspects of being an animal, examining the connections between humans and other creatures. more

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 9, 2004) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His deconstructive philosophy had a profound impact on postmodernism, cultural studies, and literary theory. more

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“As soon as we cease to believe in such an engineer and in a discourse which breaks with the received historical discourse, and as soon as we admit that every finite discourse is bound by a certain bricolage and that the engineer and the scientist are also species of bricoleurs , then the very idea of bricolage is menaced and the difference in which it took on its meaning breaks down.”

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“I am one of those marranes who no longer say they are Jews even in the secret of their own hearts.”

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