Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Derrida, Jacques (continued)
From Socrates to Freud and
Beyond, 171 – 79 ;Psyche, 215 ; “The
Question of Style,” 165 ;“Signa-
ture Event Context” lecture,
156 – 57 , 160 – 63 ; “The Sound of
the Sea Deep Within a Shell: Paul
de Man’s War,” 192 , 202 – 11 ;Spec-
ters of Marx, 213 , 217 , 226 – 31 ;
Speech and Phenomena, 49 ,
56 – 60 ;Of Spirit, 211 – 15 ;Spurs:
Nietzsche’s Styles, 171 ;For What
Tomorrow... A Dialogue, 233 – 37 ;
“Whither Marxism?” lectures,
226 .See also“The Ends of Man”
lecture;Of Grammatology; Writ-
ing and Difference
Derrida, Janine (sister), 13
Derrida, Jean (son), 25
Derrida, Marguerite Aucouturier
(wife), 24 , 48 , 71 , 172 , 256 n 7 ;in
Derridafilm, 240 , 241 , 242 ; mar-
riage to Jacques Derrida, 25
Derrida, Norbert (brother), 13
Derrida, Paul (brother), 13
Derrida, Pierre (son), 25 , 48 , 196
Descartes, René, 2 , 30 , 67 , 68 , 72 – 73 ,
162
desire, 144 , 145 , 147 , 155 , 243
Deutscher, Penelope, 152
dialectics, 134 , 154
Dick, Kirby, 240 , 241 , 242 , 243
différance, 2 , 5 , 101 , 245 ; etymology
of, 32 – 33 ; flight from, 40 ;Freud
and, 181 ; historical real and, 64
difference, 34 , 254 n 2 ; Freud and,
106 – 7 ; irreducible, 8 ; language
and, 81 – 82 ; meaning and, 78 – 79
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, 142
discourse, 85 , 96
Dissemination, 144

Donato, Eugenio, 93

dreams, interpretation of, 111 , 175

École Normale Supérieure (ENS), 2 ,

11 , 26 , 41 , 218 ; Foucault at, 65 , 66 ,

68 , 69 ; Lévi-Strauss at, 89 ;Marx-

ism at, 12 , 44 , 228 ;May 1968 re-

volt and, 131 ; prestige of, 21 – 22

ego, 8 , 10 , 143 , 158

Egypt, 19 , 77 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 149 – 50

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 78

empiricism, 62 , 73 ; anthropology

of Lévi-Strauss and, 88 – 89 , 90 ,

96 – 97 , 99 ; as antiphilosophy, 128 ;

speech-writing difference and, 80

“The Ends of Man” lecture, 6 , 27 ,

60 , 136 ; Foucault and, 133 – 34 ;

May 1968 revolt and, 65 , 130 – 31 ,

132 , 137 ; on Nietzschean overman,

168 , 169

The Enigma of Woman(Kofman),

169

Enlightenment, 9 , 31 , 66 , 87

epistemes, 34 , 67

Essay on the Origin of Language

(Rousseau), 195

ethics, 5 – 6 , 35 – 36 , 201 , 215 , 242 ;de-

construction and, 94 ; Derrida’s

ethical turn, 218 ; Jewish, 128 , 129 ;

moral relativism, 35 ; terrorism

and, 239

ethnocentrism, 75 , 87

Europe, 217 , 233 ; defeat of Commu-

nism/Marxism in, 213 , 219 – 20 ;

Jews and European culture, 192 ,

194 , 203 , 204 ; scientific con-

sciousness and, 43 , 45

Evans, Claude, 58 , 82

existentialism, 89 , 120 , 134 , 135 , 200

“Existentialism is a Humanism”

(Sartre lecture), 27

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