Who Was Jacques Derrida?: An Intellectual Biography

Will to Power(Nietzsche), 245
wish fulfillment, 175 , 178
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 51 , 78 , 157 ,
253 n 5
Wolin, Richard, 226 , 229 , 230
women, in Nietzsche’s philosophy,
166 – 67 , 168 , 169 , 170 – 71 , 181
Wood, David, 57
World War I, 175
World War II, 3 , 17 , 18 , 137 , 158 , 189 ;
Shoah and, 124 ; as struggle be-
tween democracy and fascism,
217 ; turning of tide against Ger-
many, 207
writing, 8 , 71 , 92 ; absence among
primitive peoples, 87 – 88 ;as
apocalyptic challenge, 118 – 19 ;as
becoming-absent of subject, 82 ;
Bible stories and, 112 – 13 ; Chinese
characters, 77 ; Egyptian hiero-
glyphics, 77 , 110 – 11 , 113 ; empirical
proof and, 73 ; flux of world and,
139 – 40 ;Freud’s “mystic writing

pad,” 107 , 113 ; grammatology as

exaltation of, 72 ; logocentrism

and, 104 ; phonetic and nonpho-

netic systems, 83 ; politics and,

100 ; social control and, 90 – 91

Writing and Difference, 6 , 41 , 49 , 60 ,

191 , 200 ; desire for truth, 62 ;em-

piricism and outside of philoso-

phy, 63 – 64 ; “Force and Signifi-

cation,” 116 – 20 ; Foucault chapter

in, 65 ; “Freud and the Scene of

Writing,” 102 – 15 , 117 ; on Jabès,

120 – 23 ; on Lévinas, 218 ; other of

philosophy, 115 ; “Structure, Sign

and Play in the Discourse of the

Human Sciences” lecture, 5 – 6 ,

60 , 94 – 98 , 100 – 101 , 114 – 15 , 170 ;

unconscious as palimpsest, 91 ;

“Violence and Metaphysics,”

125 – 29

Zionism, 120 – 21

Zola,Émile, 234

Index 273