Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography
lexicon, logocentrism), Derrida promoted skeptical method. He associated skepticism with another key term,différance, which conv ...
portraying phenomenological themes in terms of human drama: for instance, scenes of voyeurism and seductive ma- nipulation. The ...
was forced to a crisis over the question of psychology. He in- sisted that de Man’s accusers could not know his inner life, and ...
a recognition that there was something outside the perpetual recapitulations of the text. Derrida wanted a commanding truth, one ...
lecture, “The Ends of Man,” Derrida used Nietzsche to respond to the mood of student protestors, all the while leaving it un- cl ...
the this-worldly emphasis that Derrida disdained in Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, J. L. Austin, and others. These ...
Derrida, the promoter of otherness and irreducible difference, transformed these texts into a reflection of his own preoc- cupat ...
was Western metaphysics; the institutions of modernity since the Enlightenment played a similar role in Foucault. In the six- ti ...
10 Introduction is on the psyche of the author, remains more useful than the deconstructionist idea that misreading occurs withi ...
I From Algeria to the École Normale: Sartre, Hegel, Husserl errida’s thought cannot be understood apart from his life. From the ...
After a brief account of Derrida’s youth in Algeria, his family and his early reading, I describe in this chapter the major phil ...
Jackie Derrida, later known as Jacques, was born on July 15 , 1930 , in El Biar, Algeria, near Algiers. Both his parents came fr ...
Charles abdicated that same year, but the conquest of Algeria continued under his successor, the Orleanist Louis-Philippe. At th ...
Gaulle 12 ). The pieds-noirs, though vastly outnumbered by the Arab population, had the upper hand economically and socially. Je ...
lished a central rabbinate in Algiers, and two others in Oran and Constantine. The chief rabbi in each of the three towns was im ...
hear French mobs in Algiers celebrating the Nazi victory. In August 1934 , Arabs murdered twenty-five Jews in Constantine, in ea ...
rituals—I found it thoughtless, just blind repetitions.... The privilege of holding, carrying and reading the Torah was auctione ...
lion had been brutally quieted, at least until the cataclysm of 1955 – 62 , the Algerian war.^2 The revolt of native Algerian Ar ...
hundred Jews were killed by Arab mobs in November 1945 (Atlas 93 ). Years later, he recalled, “Even for a child who was unable t ...
Derrida’s intellectual interests marked a departure from family tradition. For generations, the Derridas had been small business ...
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