The heritage of death : Ricoeur and Derrida

In this article the author juxtaposes two different attempts of defending life against Heidegger's horizon of death, the 'survie' of Jacques Derrida and the living up to death of Ricoeur. Their false proximity introduces a new insight into the discussion about the paradoxical positiveness of deconstruction. Ricoeur's concept of life makes impossible the understanding of deconstruction as faithfulness to the other not in his identity, but precisely in his othernes