Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

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Girard, René, 93
Glas, 140
Godard, Jean-Luc, 71
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 178
Goffman, Erving, 80
Goldmann, Lucien, 93
Graef, Ortwin de, 191 , 207
graphemes, 86
Greece, ancient, 36 – 37 , 40 , 58 , 93 ;
Hellenized Jews, 127 ; nature-
culture division and, 95 ; origin of
geometry and, 43 ; sophists, 147
GREPH organization, 168
Griswold, Charles, 152
Guevara, Che, 138
Gulag Archipelago(Solzhenitsyn), 213


Habermas, Jürgen, 237 – 38
Hall, Donald, 198
Hamlet(Shakespeare), 231
Handelman, Susan, 223 – 24
Hegel, G.W.F., 29 – 31 , 34 , 36 , 69 , 93 ,
140 ; on empiricism, 128 ; French
philosophy and, 165 ; humanism
and, 134 ; Husserl contrasted to,
42 ; Kant and, 59 ; Lacan’s psycho-
analysis and, 103 ; metaphysics
and, 12 ; Napoleon and, 131 ;study
of philosophy and, 157 ; on time, 55
Heidegger, Art, and Politics(Lacoue-
Labarthe), 213
Heidegger, Martin, 27 , 29 , 123 , 183 ;
on Being, 73 , 135 – 36 ; Dasein con-
cept, 34 , 135 ; on death and sub-
jectivity, 86 ; Derrida’s political
turn and, 219 ;différance and, 33 ;
French philosophy and, 165 ;
Gadamer as student of, 185 ;hu-
manism and, 134 ; Husserl and,
37 – 38 ; Lacan’s psychoanalysis
and, 103 ; last testament, 230 ;


Lévinas and, 124 , 126 ; Marxist
view of, 70 ; metaphysics and, 72 ,
136 ; Nietzsche and, 59 , 137 , 169 ;
on Sartre, 134 ; study of philoso-
phy and, 157
Heidegger Nazi scandal, 182 , 184 ,
211 – 15 , 216 , 255 nn 8 – 9 ; biblical ref-
erence and, 232 ; passions raised
by, 227 ; political impact of, 217 – 18
Heller, Agnès, 219
Heraclitus, 141
hermeneutics, 183 , 185
hieroglyphics, Egyptian, 77 , 113
historicism, 44 , 67
history, 30 , 31 , 85 ; anthropology
and, 75 ; biblical source of, 121 ;
difference and, 129 ; Jews as, 120 ;
madness and, 65 ; meaning of
words and, 160 ; objectivity and,
45 , 46 ; origin of religion, 80 ; self
and, 53 ; as sign of the real, 227 ;
traumatic origin of, 62 ; universal
ideas and, 36 ; violent force of, 133
History of Madness in the Age of
Reason(Foucault), 66
Hitler, Adolf, 214 , 236
Hollander, John, 198
Holocaust denial, 236
hospitality, 231 – 33 , 256 n 6
Howard, Richard, 66
How to Do Things with Words
(Austin), 158 , 161
humanism, 101 , 132 , 133 , 213 , 214 , 216 ;
existentialism as, 134 ;“Jewish hu-
manism,” 222 ; Todorov against
deconstruction, 94
human rights, 94 , 133 , 230
Hume, David, 30
Husserl, Edmund, 24 , 29 , 41 – 42 ,
58 – 60 , 89 ; Derrida’s critique of,
129 , 139 ; Derrida’s political turn

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