Rive Sud/Rive Nord: À propos du dialogue entre Mustapha Chérif et Jacques Derrida

Abstract

The article elaborates on one of the last interviews given by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. An interesting aspect of the interview was that the interviewer was the Algerianborn philosopher and journalist, Mustapha Chérif. His questions tackled issues like Algerian identity and the relationship between politics and religion, more exactly, the relation between between Islam and the spiritual world of the West. Derrida's responses offer us autobiographical references as well as a remarkably positive image concerning a possible future dialogue between different cultures.