Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

experience, 39 , 45 , 83 ;archive of,
180 ; genesis and structure of, 42 ;
philosophy and, 89
expression, 49 – 53 ; body’s gestures,
56 ; death and, 64 ; metaphysics
and, 74 ; nothingness and, 118 ;
radicals of 1960 s and, 136

The Family Idiot(Sartre), 103
Farias, Victor, 212
fascism, 4 , 214 , 217
Faurisson, Robert, 236
Faye, Emmanuel, 212
feminism, 26 , 166 , 169 , 171
Ferrari, Giovanni, 152
Flaubert, Gustave, 103 , 118
Fliess, Wilhelm, 106
For What Tomorrow... A Dialogue,
233 – 37
Foucault, Michel, 8 , 24 , 44 , 114 , 115 ,
129 ; counterculture and, 137 ; death
from AIDS, 217 ; on decriminaliza-
tion of rape, 235 ; Derrida’s cri-
tique of, 116 , 120 ; Derrida’s lecture
on, 65 – 69 ; empiricism in, 62 , 63 ,
65 , 68 , 73 ;as engagé intellectual,
215 ; on Enlightenment reason, 9 ,
66 , 87 ; idealistic primitivism of,
87 ; Iranian revolution and, 133 ;
May 1968 revolt and, 132 – 34 ;New
Historicism and, 226 – 27 ;on
Nietzsche, 165
Fox, Michael, 224 – 25
France, 60 – 61 , 136 , 257 n 10 ; Algerian
colony, 13 – 16 ; anti-Semitism in,
16 ; Arab nationalism and Alger-
ian war, 18 – 19 ; liberal humanism
in, 213 ;May 1968 revolt, 130 – 33 ;
psychoanalysis in, 102 – 3 ;World
War II and Nazi collaboration,
17 , 18 , 27 , 124 , 205 , 256 n 6

Freud, Sigmund, 3 , 8 , 63 , 91 , 94 , 246 ;

as demystifier of ego, 10 ;Der-

rida’s critique of, 140 ;différance

and, 33 ; on drives, 178 – 79 , 181 ;on

Egyptian hieroglyphics, 77 ;on

fort-dascenario, 176 – 78 ; found-

ing of psychoanalysis and, 47 ;

Hebrew Bible and, 64 , 65 , 106 ,

109 – 14 ; Judaism and, 21 , 104 , 110 ,

236 , 252 n 8 ; Lacan’s reading of,

103 ; logocentrism and, 104 – 5 ;

on memory and perception,

106 – 8 ; metaphysics and, 107 , 114 ;

mythic thought and, 97 ;on

Nietzsche’s self-knowledge, 167 ;

on origin of history, 62 , 64 ;phi-

losophy and, 4 , 29 ; Plato and,

179 – 80 ; as prophetic figure, 102 ,

111 , 117 ; reason and, 103 – 4 ;on

slips of the tongue, 75 ; on subli-

mation, 179 ; “talking cure” and,

105 ;therapeutic dialogue and,

140 ; on trauma, 109 – 11 , 115 , 117 ,

174 – 75 ; on the unconscious, 52 ,

108 – 9 , 113 ; on wish fulfillment,

175 , 178

Fukuyama, Francis, 30

The Future Lasts Forever(Althusser),

69 – 70

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 164 , 183 – 90 ,

254 n 3

Le Gai Savoir(Godard film), 71

Genealogy of Morals(Nietzsche), 137

“‘Genesis and Structure’ and Phe-

nomenology” lecture, 41 – 42 , 44 ,

46 , 49 , 117

Genet, Jean, 140

Genette, Gérard, 48 , 70

geometry, 37 , 39 – 40 , 41 – 46

Gide, André, 20

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