More Online Books

I've recently stumbled on Fark Yaraları = Scars of Différance by way of Continental Philosophy and found a huge assortment of books that will be of interest to anyone interest in Husserl, Heidegger, and Deleuze (among others). As with the previous post, most of these are in RAR format, so try to get your hands on WinRAR to take advantage of this great selection.

Also, Continental Philosophy has a link to a site that has a number of texts on religion, philosophy, and philosophy of religion. The Cambridge Companion series' should be of particular interest.

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Heidegger Reexamined, 4 Vols.

This is probably one of the most important posts on Heidegger I have given to date. Hubert Dreyfus and Mark Wrathall got together and created an anthology of, in their mind, some of the best and most important works on Heidegger's thought. Normally you would have to pay a small fortune (at least on a student's income) to get your hands on this set. I've been searching for online copies for some time and, with one failure, I've finally located them! They are in RAR format, so you need to download WinRAR or another program that unpacks it, but you can get a trial version. So enjoy!!!!

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NYU Tribute to Jacques Derrida

As I was searching for those rare videos on philosophical topics, I discovered this tribute given in honor of Jacques Derrida by various faculty members from NYU and a few other universities. Here is the blurb put on Google Video:

A tribute to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) hosted by NYU's Center for French Civilization and Culture, the Department of German, and the faculty of Arts and Sciences. Video includes segments of tributes given by scholars including Richard Foley, Tom Bishop, Peter Goodrich, Shireen Patell, Anselm Haverkamp, Ulrich Baer, Mary-Ann Caws, Michel Beaujour, Emiply Apter, Gil Anidjar, Drucilla Cornell, Judith Friedlander, Béatrice Longuenesse, Gayatri Spivak, and Avital Ronell.

Also of interest is the University of California--Irvine's Remembering Jacques Derrida, which includes rebuttals to the New York Times' unflattering obituary for Derrida.

I will admit to general ignorance of Derrida's work, but from all the tributes and stories about his life that I have heard/read from those who knew him and understanding his work through Heidegger's later philosophy, he was a caring man with genuine concern for the Other, hardly the nihilist/relativist that his often rabid opponents characterize him as. So, with that, enjoy this tribute:

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