Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Nazism, 3 – 4 , 16 – 17 , 18 , 94 , 124 ; face
of the other and, 223 ; humanism
and, 213 , 214 ; Husserl’s response
to, 39 , 40 ; Nietzsche canonized
by, 166 .See alsoanti-Semitism;
de Man Nazi scandal; Heidegger
Nazi scandal; Shoah
Neoplatonism, 59
New Critics, 198
New Historicism, 217 , 226 – 27
New Left, 100
The New Nietzsche(Allison, ed.), 165
New York Times, 238 , 244 – 45
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 5 – 6 , 8 , 59 , 94 ,
240 ; apocalypticism of, 6 , 9 , 63 ,
99 ; on art and truth, 200 ; attach-
ment to inner self, 243 ; Derrida’s
discovery of, 18 , 20 ;différance
and, 33 ; emotions addressed by,
41 ; Freud and, 110 ; liberation
of writing and, 140 ; on living
speech, 78 ;May 1968 revolt and,
133 , 134 ; messianism of, 100 ;
metaphysics and, 137 ; philosophy
put in question by, 164 – 65 ;as
prophetic figure, 12 , 60 , 65 , 102 ,
117 , 245 , 247 ; psychology and, 29 ,
242 ; self-knowledge of, 167 ;
transformed world and, 62 ;
Übermensch(overman) con-
cept, 102 , 137 , 169 – 70 , 171 ;wide-
ranging influence of, 165 – 66 ;on
women, 166 – 67 , 168 , 169 , 170 – 71 ,
181 ; Zarathustra figure, 119
“Nietzsche, Genealogy, History”
(Foucault), 165
Nietzsche and Metaphor(Kofman),
168
Nietzsche aujourd’hui (Nietzsche
To d a y )anthology, 165

nihilism, 211 , 221

No Exit(Sartre), 25

“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”

(Stevens), 35

“A Note Upon the Mystic Writing

Pad” (Freud), 107 , 191

Nouvel observateur(newsmagazine),

214

objectivity, 36 , 43 , 44 , 45

October(journal), 229

Of Grammatology, 6 , 49 , 60 ;critique

of Saussure, 33 ; deconstruction-

ism launched by, 71 ; de Man’s

critique of, 58 ; desire for truth,

62 ; empiricism and outside of

philosophy, 63 , 64 ; on end of

book, 72 ; Godard film reference

to, 71 ; on Lévi-Strauss, 87 – 91 ; role

of self, 85 – 87 ; on Rousseau, 195 ,

251 n 3 ; on the trace, 83 – 85 ;on

voice and writing, 115 – 16 ;on

writing versus speech, 74 – 78

Of Spirit, 211 – 15

oral culture, 75

“Origin of Geometry” (Husserl),

24 , 36 , 46 , 58 ; Derrida’s introduc-

tion to, 48 , 60 ; Derrida’s study

of, 42

The Other Heading, 217

otherness, 8 , 62 , 125 – 26

Ott,Hugo, 212

Palestinians, 236 , 237 , 250 n 7 , 256 –

57 n 9 , 257 n 10 .See alsoArabs

palimpsest, 91

Papon, Maurice, 19

Parmenides, 141

parousia, 109

Partisan Review, 197

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