with a panel featuring filmmaker Safaa Fathy and Cornell faculty members
The goal of this film was twofold: to reveal the close links between Jacques Derrida's personal life and his research, and to broach some of the major questions of the day in light of these probings. In it, we see Derrida at home, at work, or on his travels, as he speaks of the sufferings, challenges and questionings that conditioned his thoughts since his childhood in Algeria. He evokes a number of seemingly disparate themes including hospitality, religion, sexual difference or the place of the subject in philosophy, uncovering the common thread running through them: responsibility. more at frif.com Video projection
1999, color, 1 hour 8 minutes, France