【德里达着作】《访谈-单一性、有限性和宽恕》（英文版）.pdf

An Interview With Professor Jacques Derrida Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris January 8, 1998, Jerusalem Interviewer: Dr. Michal Ben-Naftali Translated from French by Dr. Moshe Ron Uniqueness, Limitation and Forgivability Q- I would like to present questions on two different levels: the first one has to do with “after Auschwitz” as a recognized and articulated turning-point in certain currencies within continental philosophy; the second one has to do with your own work, often referred to as “deconstruction” in this context. Nevertheless, it seems inevitable that both levels would meet as we go along in our conversation. Last Monday, on the 5th of January, you were giving a seminar in Jerusalem, tackling the idea of forgiveness through a dialogue with the work of Jankelevitch. Do you consider this work as symptomatic of French or perhaps French-Jewish engagement with the Holocaust since the 60s? Would you connect Jankelevitch's notion of the unforgiven with certain experience or phase in either Jewish or French work of mourning in the post- Vichy era? D- Thank you. Many difficult questions. Before beginning this interview, I'd like to insist on one or two things. First, the problems we are about to approach are problems that have been with us so constantly, and have marked our memory, have marked our attention even when we're not paying attention, even when we don't explicitly think of them. The Shoah or the Holocaust has marked our experience so ubiquitously, that it is difficult both to isolate it as a topic and then, in an interview such as this, to assemble all the reflections that have not ceased accumulating ever since. I feel very uneasy about isolating the topic of the Holocaust in a conversation improvised in Jerusalem, when somehow the consci