ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the final writings of Sontag and the impact that the events in the United States of 9/11/01 had on them. To accomplish this reading, I draw her final works (from At The Same Time, a volume edited by her son David Rieff) into dialogue with the final works of Jacques Derrida and examine the ways that 9/11/01 shapes and indeed haunts the final writings of both philosophers. Particularly, concepts such as autoimmunity, the cosmopolitan/global impulse, and the “war on terror” and the politics of memorialization are explored.
