May 1968 revolt and, 132 , 133 ;
phenomenology and, 26 – 27
Saunier-Seité, Alice, 183
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 7 , 68 ;
on Chinese writing, 83 ;Der-
rida’s critique of, 78 – 83 , 99 , 129 ;
différance and, 33 ; empiricism
and, 63 , 115 – 16 ; Freud compared
with, 105 ; semiotics and, 78
science, 38 – 40 , 47 , 76 ; empiricism
and, 96 ; truth and, 43 , 44
Searle, John, 163
self, 1 , 155 ; accounts of identity,
180 ; Christian idea of, 169 – 70 ;
death and selfhood, 55 – 56 ,
86 – 87 ; discourse and, 85 ;divided
soul, 144 ; inner mental life,
50 – 54 ; psychic agencies in
struggle within, 143 ; signifying
machine and, 10 ; superego as
false image of, 103 ; trauma
and, 109 , 113 – 14 ;unknowable
(cryptic, hidden), 4 , 167 – 68 ,
189 , 191 , 246
semiotics, 78 , 83
September 11 , 2001 ( 9 / 11 ), events of,
237 – 38 , 257 n 10
Sétif massacre, 18
sexual harassment, 235 , 256 n 7
Shaler, William, 15
Shoah, 124 , 189 , 212 – 13 , 236 , 255 n 9
“Signature Event Context” lecture,
156 – 57 , 158 , 160 – 63
signifiers, 8 , 78 – 82
signs, linguistic, 78 , 116 ; death and,
55 – 56 ; hidden self and, 53 – 54 ;
indication and expression, 50 , 53 ,
54 ; religion and, 80
Signs of the Times(Lehman), 192
Situations(Sartre), 25
skepticism, 3 , 5 ; contingency and,
34 – 35 ; denial of human identity,
87 ; history and, 30 ; network of
signifiers and, 8 ; responsibility
and, 210 ; shortcomings of, 63 ;
writing and, 92 .See alsometa-
physics-skepticism opposition
Social Text(journal), 229
sociology, 76 , 80
Socrates, 38 , 73 , 78 , 105 , 141 , 167 ;on
desire and knowledge, 144 – 45 ,
146 ; dialectic method, 155 ; in dia-
logues of Plato, 142 , 172 , 173 ;on
divided psyche, 3 ; execution of,
143 ; on writing, 148 , 149 – 51 , 153
Le Soir(newspaper), de Man arti-
cles in, 191 – 94 , 197 , 201 , 202 , 204 ;
chronology of de Man’s involve-
ment, 207 ; Derrida and, 207 – 8 ,
209 .See alsode Man Nazi scandal
Sollers, Philippe, 156
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 213
sophists, rhetoric of, 147 , 154 – 55 , 164
“The Sound of the Sea Deep Within
a Shell: Paul de Man’s War,” 192 ,
202 – 11
South Africa, aftermath of apart-
heid in, 233
Soviet Union, 27 – 28 , 70
Specters of Marx, 213 , 217 , 226 – 31
speech, 49 , 57 – 58 , 72 , 74 – 78 , 149
Speech and Phenomena, 49 , 56 – 60 ,
115 – 16
Der Spiegelmagazine, Derrida
interview with, 230
Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles, 165 – 68 , 171
Stalin, Joseph, 30 , 124 , 228
Stalinism, 26 , 28
Sterne, Laurence, 172
Stevens, Wallace, 35Index 271