![]() ![]() He was also organizing a new government institute for cultural studies at Essen, to be opened the following year. In the spring of 1989, six months before the Berlin Wall was breached, a West German professor of history, Lutz Niethammer, was writing yet another commentary on Walter Benjamin’s ninth thesis on the philosophy of history, that well-known aphorism evoking the image of an angel of history who is blown away by a storm over an inexorably growing pile of rubble on the ground. Walter Benjamin's Angel of History, or the Transfiguration of the Revolutionary into the Historian This essay is part of a larger project on the author-function in early modern science. ![]() ![]() He is the author of Galileo, Courtier (1993) and is currently completing, with Albert Van Helden, a book on the discovery of sunspots in 1612-13. Mario Biagioli is professor of history of science at Harvard University. See also: Mario Biagioli, Postdisciplinary Liaisons: Science Studies and the Humanities By doing so, I trace the transformation of the codes of princely etiquette that framed the legitimation of individual practitioners through dependence on individual princes into the academic politeness that, by structuring the interdependence among practitioners, informed their subjectivities, practices, and claims as members of scientific institutions. This essay looks at the first decades of the scientific academies and relates the sociabilities and scientific styles developed in Italy, France, and England to the different degrees of princely involvement in those institutions, to the power of those various princes, and to the different institutional structures regulating the relationship between practitioners and princes. Together they have translated, among other works, Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind (1993) and “To Do Justice to Freud.”Įtiquette, Interdependence, and Sociability in Seventeenth-Century Science Michael Naas is assistant professor of philosophy at DePaul University and author of Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (1995). She has written articles on contemporary French literature and drama and is currently working on a book on the revisioning of female identity in classical Greek literature. Pascale-Anne Brault is assistant professor of French at DePaul University. His most recent contribution to Critical Inquiry is “’To Do Justice to Freud’: The History of Madness in the Age of Psychoanalysis” (Winter 1994). Jacques Derrida is Directeur d’Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and professor of French, University of California, Irvine. Wolfgang Holdheim, Jacques Derrida's Apologia Right up until death-that is what whoever works at mourning knows, working at mourning as both their object and their recourse, working at mourning as one would speak of a painter working at a painting but also of a machine working at such and such an energy level, the theme of work thus becoming their very force, and their term, a principle. And that is why whoever thus works at the work of mourning learns the impossible-and that mourning is interminable. To speak of mourning or of anything else. This is also why one should not be able to say anything about the work of mourning, anything about this subject, since it cannot become a theme, only another experience of mourning that comes to work over the one who intends to speak. There is thus no metalanguage for the language in which a work of mourning is at work. The work of mourning is not one kind of work among other possible kinds an activity of the kind “work” is by no means a specific figure for production in general. Even when it has the power to give birth, even and especially when it plans to bring something to light and let it be seen. In the announcement of one’s own death, which says, in short, “I am dead,” “I died”-such as this book lets it be heard-one should be able to say, and I have tried to say this in the past, that all work is also the work of mourning. One cannot hold a discourse on the “work of mourning” without taking part in it, without announcing or partaking in death, and first of all in one’s own death. ![]()
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