libri virides
And if my secret self, that which can be revealed only to the other, to the wholly other, to God if you wish, is a secret that I will never reflect on, that I will never know or experience or possess as my own, then what sense is there in saying that it is âmyâ secret, or in saying more generally that a secret belongs, that it is proper to or belongs to some âoneâ, or to some other who remains someone? Derrida, The Gift of Death But I would make of this trans-political principle a political principle, a political rule or position taking: it is necessary also in politics to respect the secret, that which exceeds the political or that which is no longer in the juridical domain. This is what I would call the âdemocracy to comeâ. Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness