Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

is occurring at all—say, if you have been drugged or brain- washed by your potential spouse—then this lack of awareness, imposed ...

often describes cases in which we try to get away with some- thing; such cases end by reining us in: suggesting how, and to what ...

an essay of over a hundred pages entitled “Limited INC.” The gap between analytic and Continental philosophy only be- came wider ...

seascapes. Nietzsche, like Plato, plays the rebel psychologist among philosophers: he specializes in detecting the personal moti ...

strangely enough, became a favorite author for feminists.^8 Nietzsche’s canonization by the Nazis (an unlikely fact, given his o ...

achievement of certainty. In her role as the Dionysiac artist, freely manipulating appearance and reality, woman escapes all the ...

fragmented and the cryptic as the basis for imaginative new- ness seems relatively thin. (In later years Derrida suggests that t ...

second volume,The Enigma of Woman,released in 1980 ,am- plified Derrida’s work, establishing the study of gender in Nietzsche as ...

the self and its morality. For Derrida, there is no particular dis- tinction between one Western religion or culture and another ...

finds a more profitable subject, since Nietzsche knows that here he cannot assert his vision. He finds himself defeated by the s ...

attempt. Derrida discovered the postcard of his book’s title in the Bodleian library at Oxford. It reproduces a thirteenth- cent ...

Derrida, commenting on the medieval picture of Soc- rates writing with Plato standing behind him, explores the possibility that ...

ples. But Derrida’s esotericism, a seedy half-opaque series of glimpses, remains far removed from Plato’s. In The Post Card, a b ...

traumatic neurosis, including the so-called war neuroses, re- turn time and again in their dreams to the original disruptive eve ...

Freud has been observing a small child, he tells us (in ac- tuality his grandson Ernst, one and a half years old). “This good li ...

with himself, by making himself return without making anything but himself, her in himself, return. All the while remaining, as ...

influenced by a wish that dominates them the whole time— the wish to be grown-up and to be able to do what grown-up people do” ( ...

organization, greater plurality and sophistication. Freud’s eros is, in essence, the force of human development. We do not have ...

their shared emphasis on education. Both look toward the improvement or development of the individual. The thera- peutic bent of ...

definition. Plato’s boy-loving rhetorician, Austin’s bigamist or welsher, Nietzsche’s manipulative woman: all are minor case stu ...