Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Koethe, John, 35
Kofman, Amy Ziering, 240 , 241 , 242 ,
243
Kofman, Sarah, 165 , 168 – 69
Kojève, Alexandre, 30 – 31 , 103 , 134

Lacan, Jacques, 3 , 30 , 93 , 103 , 243
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 213
language, 9 , 32 , 75 , 251 n 3 ; Being and,
135 ; body language, 91 ; common
nature of meaning and, 185 – 86 ;
contingency and, 35 ; ethics and,
201 ; expression and, 52 ;frag-
ments of, 3 ; free play of, 98 ;as
instrument, 160 ; meaning and,
33 , 201 ; play with, 140 ; Saussure’s
system-based view of, 78 – 79 ; self
prior to, 53 ; speech as essence of,
82 – 83 ; as “transparent” expres-
sion, 132 ; unreliability of, 193
The Language of Psychoanalysis
(Laplanche and Pontalis), 103
language philosophy, 157
Laplanche, Jean, 103
Lehman, David, 94 , 192 , 198
“Letter on Humanism” (Heideg-
ger), 27 , 134 , 135
Levin, Harry, 197 , 198
Lévinas, Emmanuel, 5 , 6 – 7 , 63 , 139 ;
challenge to philosophy, 116 , 125 ;
Derrida’s ethical turn and, 37 ,
218 ;différance and, 33 ; emotions
addressed by, 41 ; empiricism and,
96 – 97 , 126 ; encounter with other
in, 62 , 64 , 99 ; ethics of, 12 , 130 ;
on face-to-face encounter, 115 ,
117 , 124 , 126 – 27 , 221 – 24 ; Hebrew
Bible and, 65 , 110 ; Heidegger and,
126 ; Judaism and, 121 , 123 – 24 ,
256 n 6 ; on justice, 222 , 223 ;meta-

physics and, 126 , 224 ; political

atmosphere of 1960 s and, 100 ;

prophetic style and, 245 , 247 ;on

responsibility to other person, 9 ,

86 ; study of Husserl, 26

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 7 , 68 , 99 , 101 ,

115 ; Derrida’s critiques of, 87 – 91 ,

94 – 97 , 116 , 209 ; empiricism of,

62 , 63 , 115 – 16

liberalism, 70 , 132 , 213 , 214 , 230

Libya, 19 – 20

Lilla, Mark, 226

“Limited INC,” 164

literature, 47 – 48 , 60 , 118

Logical Investigations(Husserl), 49 ,

50 – 51 , 54

logocentrism, 2 , 31 – 32 , 34 , 130 ;

alternatives to, 115 ; conflict with

différance, 245 ; defined, 7 ;Hegel

and, 31 ; literature and, 48 , 60 ;

May 1968 revolt and, 132 ; mean-

ing and, 54 ; originality and, 84 ;

Plato and, 141 ; speech and, 79

logos, 45 , 67 , 68 , 98 , 99 , 122

Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III), 14

Louis-Philippe, king of France, 14 ,

15 – 16

Lukács, Georg, 198

Lyotard, Jean-François, 224

Macksey, Richard, 93

madness, 9 , 63 , 65 , 67 – 68 , 73 ;of

Althusser, 69 – 70 , 218 ; of Artaud,

99 ;oflove, 144 ; of Nietzsche, 168 ;

outside of philosophy and, 129 ;as

primitivism, 87

Madness and Civilization(Foucault),

66

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 60

Mandela, Nelson, 215

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